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.TH deb\-conffiles 5 "2018-06-26" "1.18.25" "dpkg suite"
.nh
.SH NAME
deb\-conffiles \- package conffiles
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.SH SYNOPSIS
conffiles
.
.SH DESCRIPTION
A package declares its list of conffiles by including a \fIconffiles\fP file
in its control archive (i.e. \fIDEBIAN/conffiles\fP during package creation).
.PP
This file contains a list of files, one per line.
They should be listed as absolute pathnames, and should exist in the binary
package, otherwise \fBdpkg\fP(1) will ignore them (although by default
\fBdpkg\-deb\fP(1) will refuse to build such binary packages).
Trailing whitespace will be trimmed, and empty lines will be ignored.
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.SH EXAMPLE
.nf
/etc/alternatives/README
/etc/cron.daily/dpkg
/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg
/etc/logrotate.d/dpkg
.fi
.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR dpkg\-deb (1),
.BR dpkg (1).