conffile change prompt on upgrade

While updating my saucy today, I got prompted about changes to "/etc/init.d/network":

"--- /etc/init.d/networking.dpkg-old 2013-05-18 07:37:44.000000000 +0200
+++ /etc/init.d/networking 2013-08-27 00:19:11.000000000 +0200
@@ -18,12 +18,20 @@

 . /lib/lsb/init-functions

+# Make sure that it's clear to the user that they shouldn't use this
+# script under upstart
+if init_is_upstart; then
+ echo "ERROR: Calling a sysvinit script on a system using upstart isn't supported. Please use the 'service' command instead."
+ exit 1
+fi
+
 CONFIGURE_INTERFACES=yes
 EXCLUDE_INTERFACES=
 VERBOSE=no

 [ -f /etc/default/networking ] && . /etc/default/networking

+verbose=""
 [ "$VERBOSE" = yes ] && verbose=-v

 process_exclusions() {"

That seems to be due to this update:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/148488266/ifupdown_0.7.5ubuntu4_0.7.44ubuntu1.diff.gz

The versions concerned by the upgrades:
2013-08-27 11:05:36 upgrade ifupdown:i386 0.7.5ubuntu4 0.7.44ubuntu1