The recent upgrade did not deal with obsolete conffiles properly. Please use the dpkg-maintscript-helper support provided by dh_installdeb to move these renamed 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=zmap ; adequate $p ; dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' $p | grep obsolete zmap: obsolete-conffile /etc/zmap/blacklist.conf /etc/zmap/blacklist.conf 8a94036baa840b8e90ff35fdc35d1e13 obsolete