Hi,
This has already been discussed since forever;
it is commonly called "volatile", "cruft" of "ghost" files,
the 'ghost' name comes from the rpm world.
Some are not actually file but glob patterns
that can match several files.
I don't know if there are plan to add the needed support it to dpkg
>From an IRC discussion Helmut asked me to mention our use case for
dynamic file registration. In emacs addon packages we currently generate
byte-compiled .elc files and some symlinks at install time. It would be
very useful not to have to track and clean those up in an ad-hoc way.
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