deb-conffiles(5) dpkg suite deb-conffiles(5)
NAME
deb-conffiles - package conffiles
SYNOPSIS
DEBIAN/conffiles
DESCRIPTION
A package declares its list of conffiles by including a conffiles file
in its control archive (i.e. DEBIAN/conffiles during package creation).
This file contains a list of files, one per line, with an optional
leading flag separated by whitespace. The conffiles must be listed as
absolute pathnames. Trailing whitespace will be trimmed, but empty or
whitespace-only lines are not accepted.
Files without a flag should exist in the binary package, otherwise
dpkg(1) will ignore them.
There is currently only one flag supported, remove-on-upgrade, to mark
that a conffile needs to be removed on the next upgrade (since dpkg
1.20.6). These files must not exist in the binary package, as both
dpkg(1) and dpkg-deb(1) will not accept building nor processing such
binary packages.
EXAMPLE
/etc/alternatives/README
/etc/cron.daily/dpkg
/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
/etc/logrotate.d/dpkg
remove-on-upgrade /etc/some-old-file.conf
SEE ALSO
dpkg-deb(1), dpkg(1).
1.21.22 2023-05-11 deb-conffiles(5)
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