diff -Nru fonts-deva-extra-3.0/debian/changelog fonts-deva-extra-3.0/debian/changelog
--- fonts-deva-extra-3.0/debian/changelog	2017-06-23 04:54:26.000000000 +0000
+++ fonts-deva-extra-3.0/debian/changelog	2018-06-09 21:53:00.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+fonts-deva-extra (3.0-4ubuntu0.1) bionic-proposed; urgency=medium
+
+  * Handle migration of conffile from wrong subdir (LP: #1701047).
+
+ -- Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj@ubuntu.com>  Sat, 09 Jun 2018 23:53:00 +0200
+
 fonts-deva-extra (3.0-4) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   [ Kartik Mistry ]
diff -Nru fonts-deva-extra-3.0/debian/control fonts-deva-extra-3.0/debian/control
--- fonts-deva-extra-3.0/debian/control	2017-06-23 04:54:26.000000000 +0000
+++ fonts-deva-extra-3.0/debian/control	2018-06-09 20:37:26.000000000 +0000
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 Source: fonts-deva-extra
 Section: fonts
 Priority: optional
-Maintainer: Debian-IN Team <debian-in-workers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
+Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
+XSBC-Original-Maintainer: Debian-IN Team <debian-in-workers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 Uploaders: Vasudev Kamath <kamathvasudev@gmail.com>
 Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9~)
 Standards-Version: 4.0.0
diff -Nru fonts-deva-extra-3.0/debian/preinst fonts-deva-extra-3.0/debian/preinst
--- fonts-deva-extra-3.0/debian/preinst	1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ fonts-deva-extra-3.0/debian/preinst	2018-06-09 20:42:07.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+set -e
+
+broken_dir=/etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-0-fonts-deva-extra.conf
+
+if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt-nl 3.0-4ubuntu0.1 \
+   && [ -d "$broken_dir" ]; then
+	# wonderful hack to replace a wrong directory with a conffile.
+	mv "$broken_dir" "$broken_dir".tmp
+	mv "$broken_dir.tmp/65-0-fonts-deva-extra.conf" /etc/fonts/conf.avail
+	rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty "$broken_dir".tmp
+fi
+
+#DEBHELPER#