The right way to remove an obsolete conffile in a Debian package
A conffile is a configuration file managed by dpkg, I'm sure you remember the introductory article about conffiles. When your package stops providing a conffile, the file stays on disk and it's recorded as obsolete by the package manager. It's only removed during purge. If you want the file to go away, you have to remove it yourself within your package's configuration scripts. You will now learn how to do this right.
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