Santiago Vila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If only the location but not the contents of the files changed from > potato to woody, you can use the prerm to copy/move the files to the > new location before dpkg realizes they didn't previously exist. > > If both the location and the contents changed you can keep a small > database of md5sums to decide whether or not to put the new files > in place in the prerm before dpkg prompts.
Neither changed. All that changed was whether the files were marked as conffiles.