The recent upgrade did not deal with obsolete conffiles properly.
Please use the dpkg-maintscript-helper support provided by
dh_installdeb to remove these obsolete conffiles on upgrade.

https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files
https://manpages.debian.org/man/1/dh_installdeb

This bug report brought to you by adequate:

https://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2013/02/23/inadequate-software/

$ p=rpmlint ; adequate $p ; dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' $p | grep obsolete
rpmlint: obsolete-conffile /etc/rpmlint/config
 /etc/rpmlint/config 0336a43faaeb30c302c114837a9e7212 obsolete

Dear maintainer,

I've prepared an NMU for rpmlint (versioned as 2.3.0+ds1-0.1) and
uploaded it to DELAYED/7. Please feel free to tell me if I
should delay it longer.

Regards.

diff -Nru rpmlint-2.2.0+ds1/configs/Fedora/users-groups.toml rpmlint-
2.3.0+ds1/configs/Fedora/users-groups.toml
--- rpmlint-2.2.0+ds1/configs/Fedora/users-groups.toml	2021-12-12
09:54:14.000000000 -0500
+++ rpmlint-2.3.0+ds1/configs/Fedora/users-groups.toml	2022-05-29
12:46:55.000000000 -0400
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # generated using tools/generate-fedora-users-groups.py on 2021-03-23

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
rpmlint, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1001603@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org> (supplier of updated rpmlint package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 29 May 2022 12:54:07 -0400
Source: rpmlint
Architecture: source
Version: 2.3.0+ds1-0.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: RPM packaging team <team+pkg-rpm@tracker.debian.org>
Changed-By: Boyuan Yang <byang@debian.org>
Closes: 1001603
Changes:
 rpmlint (2.3.0+ds1-0.1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * New upstream release.
   * debian/control: Update dependency accordingly.
   * debian/copyright: Update Files-Excluded field.
   * debian/rpmlint.maintscript: Purge obsolete conffile on upgrade.
     (Closes: #1001603)
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