good lircd.conf moved to lircd.conf.dpkg-old on pkg upgrade

[Marco Solari]

Binary package hint: lirc

When upgrading to the latest lirc package (0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7.1), the /etc/lirc/lircd.conf is moved to lircd.conf.dpkg-old, and is replaced with a new, empty config file... I don't know if it is by design, but this behaviour results in a broken lirc.
I would expect, if a not empty config file is present, to keep it as the active config file, and that the new - empty - config file to be renamed to something like "lirc.conf.new-dpkg"...

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04
Release: 8.04

$ apt-cache policy lirc
lirc:
  Installed: 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7.1
  Candidate: 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7.1 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.8.3~pre1-0ubuntu7 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages