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D.2.4

Config Version

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D.2.5

Conffiles

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D.2.6 Obsolete fields

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E Configuration file handling (from old Packaging Manual)

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E.1 Automatic handling of configuration files by

dpkg

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E.2 Fully featured maintainer script configuration handling

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F Alternative versions of an interface  

update alternatives

(from old Packaging

Manual)

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G Diversions   overriding a package's version of a file (from old Packaging Manual)

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