>Do you know what the correct to do this is? Uhm... sorry... not really... Perhaps something like backuping the current file, then using dpkg- maintscript-helper rm_conffile to remove the conffile, and then move the backup back as manually managed file.
But really better ask at d-d on how to do it... there is likely a proper way for it and the above is easily prone to /tmp attacks and so. Cheers, Chris.
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