NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | EXAMPLE | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

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

NAME         top

       deb-conffiles - package conffiles

SYNOPSIS         top

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

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

SEE ALSO         top

       dpkg(1).

COLOPHON         top

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1.18.15-3-ga2ef                  1970-01-01                 deb-conffiles(5)

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