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deb-conffiles(5)               dpkg suite               deb-conffiles(5)

NAME         top

       deb-conffiles - package conffiles

SYNOPSIS         top

       DEBIAN/conffiles

DESCRIPTION         top

       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.

EXAMPLE         top

        /usr/local/etc/alternatives/README
        /usr/local/etc/cron.daily/dpkg
        /usr/local/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
        /usr/local/etc/logrotate.d/dpkg
        remove-on-upgrade /etc/some-old-file.conf

SEE ALSO         top

       dpkg-deb(1), dpkg(1).

COLOPHON         top

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1.22.0-52-g1af0                2023-08-30               deb-conffiles(5)

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