Control: forcemerge 672608 -1 On Mon, 2018-02-19 at 13:50:28 +0100, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.19.0.5 > Severity: wishlist
> In the rpm world, there is a way to define in the list of files, files > that are not installed by the package, but by the maintainer scripts (or > later created by the application itself). > > It would be nice to have that kind of functionality as it allows the user > to immediately know the pkg that owns the file (without looking at the > maintainer scripts) and also maybe for maintainer so they don't need to > manually rm the file in postrm scripts. Yes, already filed and planned, :) but this needs the new metadata database changes. Its deployment and blockers are currently being tracked at: <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/MetadataTracking> Thanks, Guillem
