Richard Braakman wrote:

[re: my package where new upstream version wants to remove user's config
files, but doesn't provide mechanism.]

> ps used to have this problem... and it was solved by fixing the package.
> I don't think there's any other way.  At the least, the program should
> detect when a config file is an old version, and offer to delete it.

Hmm, ok, I already said I thought this was the best long-term solution. 
But it doesn't answer the question: what do I do now?  Not upload the
package until this gets resolved upstream?  Could be quite a while....
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