Michael Biebl wrote: > It was discussed briefly on debian-devel, but there is also the case > that the backup files should be cleaned up on purge.
dpkg tracks obsolete conffiles, but on removal/purge, it does not remove the obsolete conffile. If it did, it would make sense for it to also remove any .dpkg-old file, and that would seem to be a better way to handle the purge case. -- see shy jo
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