On Fri, Jul 05, 2019 at 07:25:26PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote: > It is very much expected to be resolved.
Expected by whom? > Please see: > > https://manpages.debian.org/wheezy/dpkg/dpkg-maintscript-helper.1.en.html I read most of this; it gives some general guidance that conffiles should be removed from disk in the usual case, as well as details about good ways to achieve that goal. In this case, the maintainer of the package (Sam) has expressed a desire to not remove the file. Is there policy that overrides the maintainer's discretion, here? -Ben