Comment 11 for bug 576255

Adam Conrad - "This isn't apache-specific, though it seems that apache users seem to be one of the larger groups of people who think that deleting conffiles will improve their lives somehow. Not really sure how to curb that, but not with bugs in apache."

You won't curb it by making sarky comments. If it works for a handful of congnoscenti like your goodself, but fails for the great unwashed, then it probably isn't very usefully organised. No-one's asking for 'bugs in apache'. It seems to me reasonable enough to be able to dump the config files and expect a reinstall to reload them load them with the binaries.