xfree86 man page for deb-conffiles

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

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.  They should be listed as absolute pathnames, and should exist  in  the  binary  package,
       otherwise  dpkg(1)  will ignore them (although by default dpkg-deb(1) will refuse to build such binary packages).  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-deb(1), dpkg(1).

1.19.0.5							    2018-04-16							  deb-conffiles(5)