Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.

[debian/debian-policy.git] / policy.sgml

diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 113429b0f7f5ea1e261524d27e8cfd19ff742acf..138d320cd266b2dcab9ab3c99c17ef3e014bfdf2 100644 (file)
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -9009,8 +9009,10 @@ ln -fs ../sbin/sendmail debian/tmp/usr/bin/runq
                  package is purged.
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            </list>
-           Obsolete configuration files without local changes may be
-           removed by the package during upgrade.
+           Obsolete configuration files without local changes should be
+           removed by the package during upgrade.<footnote>
+             The <prgn>dpkg-maintscript-helper</prgn> tool, available from the
+             <package>dpkg</package> package, can help for this task.</footnote>
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