This one time, at band camp, Marc Blumentritt said:
> On 7 Dec 2005 at 8:12, Fabio Tranchitella wrote:
> >   in my opinion the reconfigure target of dpkg can't delete a
> > configuration file that could be modified by the system administrator,
> > so I prefer to not implement such a feature.
> I'm on your side here (I wrote, I do not know, if deleting is a good idea), 
> but I think, it 
> should be possible to reconfigure with dpkg-reconfigure, if the package was 
> configured 
> by debconf during installation. Is deleting config.php really the only way to 
> achieve this?

The use of ucf is another option, although it is a little tedious to get
up to speed with.  In the long run, it is probably the right solution
for all packages that provide a debconf generated config file.
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