OK, almost there. But one quickie: The sentence: A package may not modify a conffile of another package. was replaced by something better, but I'm not sure what the conclusion was. How about: The maintainer scripts of a package may not modify a conffile of _any_ package, including the one the scripts belong to. as proposed by Hamish.
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