Code review comment for ~ahasenack/ubuntu/+source/base-files:xenial-motd-news-config-split

> I was wondering at first why the different rm_conffile calls - but I see that
> adding debian/base-files.maintscript with the one line we need would have had
> no effect as he maintainer scripts have no #DEBHELPER# template

Not just that, debhelper isn't used at all in d/rules. I followed the dpkg-maintscript-helper manpage which says that for rm_conffile only preinst, postinst and postrm are used