Franta Hanzlík via users wrote:
And I also lived in the fact that it is not enough for the package file to be marked as config - for the verification to pass if it is missing. I thought they must have some "phantom" attribute or something similar. I have to look into it more closely...
These files are marked %ghost to prevents them from being removed *if they existed and were modified* prior to commit 4c7acde (Do not remove modified config files, 2023-12-13)¹ on the f40 branch of the systemd package.
¹ https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/systemd/c/4c7acde