Hello Guillem,

I think that I have hit the same bug when splitting the `mime-support`
package into `media-types` and `mailcap`:

mime-support had the conffiles `/etc/mime.types` and
`/etc/mailcap.order` until version 3.64.  Version 3.65 is a transitional
package containing only a changelog and a copyright file, and depends on
media-types and mailcap.  And these two packages declare a Breaks and
Replaces relationship against mime-support << 3.65.

As a result of the upgrade, the conffiles are now owned by the new
packages.  But dpkg still keeps a record that the mime-support has
the "obsolete" version of them:

# dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' media-types
 /etc/mime.types 43fa90aa9a5e009997f451be169ac530

# md5sum /etc/mime.types
43fa90aa9a5e009997f451be169ac530  /etc/mime.types

# dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n'  mailcap
 /etc/mailcap.order ba07e08a7fe3741d0b8339127963190e

# dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n'  mime-support
 /etc/mime.types 0d516753aee0a2c670c79667aad0c836 obsolete
 /etc/mailcap.order ba07e08a7fe3741d0b8339127963190e obsolete

Is there something we can do about that ?

Have a nice day,

Charles

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