freebsd-update incorrectly deleted files in /etc/ in the event the file to be updated matched the new release and was different than the old release. This has not been an issue previously because the $FreeBSD$ tag expansion from subversion virtually guaranteed the existing file was going to be different from the new release. With the conversion to git in the 13.x releases, $FreeBSD$ is no longer expanded, making it much more likely that a file would find this issue.
