The proposal is that policy explicitly permit what is already done by some packages -- namely, the regeneration of configuration files that have been deleted. This seems sensible. This clause will serve as a warning to administrators that deleting configuration files may not have the effect that they expect.
It would also be helpful to say that if an administrator wishes to prevent the regeneration from happening then he should empty the file, not delete it. A counter-proposal from Manoj Srivastava was (explicitly?) to forbid the regeneration of configuration files that have been deleted, but this was shot down by AJT in no uncertain terms. -- Thomas Hood
