deb-conffiles - package conffiles
DEBIAN/conffiles
A package declares its list of conffiles by including a
conffiles file in
its control archive (i.e.
DEBIAN/conffiles during package creation).
This file contains a list of files, one per line, with an optional leading flag
separated by whitespace. The conffiles must be listed as absolute pathnames.
Trailing whitespace will be trimmed, but empty or whitespace-only lines are
not accepted.
Files without a flag should exist in the binary package, otherwise
dpkg(1) will ignore them.
There is currently only one flag supported,
remove-on-upgrade, to mark
that a conffile needs to be removed on the next upgrade (since dpkg 1.20.6).
These files must not exist in the binary package, as both
dpkg(1) and
dpkg-deb(1) will not accept building nor processing such binary
packages.
/etc/alternatives/README
/etc/cron.daily/dpkg
/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
/etc/logrotate.d/dpkg
remove-on-upgrade /etc/some-old-file.conf
dpkg-deb(1),
dpkg(1).