Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.18.22 Severity: minor Dear Maintainer,
The section of Debian Policy where the handling of conffiles is documented [0], gives more information than what is currently available in deb-conffiles (5) man page : 'The filenames should be absolute pathnames, and the files referred to should actually exist in the package.' Perhaps this sentence (or a rephrased version) can be added to the deb-conffiles man page. [0] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-pkg-conffiles.html#sE.1 Kind regards, Dieter
