deb-conffiles (5)

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NAME

deb-conffiles - package conffiles

SYNOPSIS

conffiles

DESCRIPTION

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. Trailing whitespace will be trimmed, and empty lines will be ignored.

EXAMPLE

/etc/alternatives/README
/etc/cron.daily/dpkg
/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
/etc/logrotate.d/dpkg

SEE ALSO

dpkg(1).