Re: Bug 99208

[tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)]

Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> 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.