diff --git a/debian/cloud-scripts.postinst b/debian/cloud-scripts.postinst
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+++ b/debian/cloud-scripts.postinst
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+#!/bin/sh -e
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+case "$1" in
+    configure)
+        # We can safely remove the /usr/lib/cloud/agent directory
+        # All the files in there have moved to the common directory
+        # The agent directory should become a symlink to common
+        if [ -d "/usr/lib/cloud/agent" ]; then
+            rm -fr /usr/lib/cloud/agent
+        fi
+
+        # Now we symlink the common directory to agent for backwards compatibility
+        if [ ! -h "/usr/lib/cloud/agent" ]; then
+            ln -s /usr/lib/cloud/common /usr/lib/cloud/agent
+        fi
+    ;;
+esac
+
diff --git a/debian/cloud-system-iso.postinst b/debian/cloud-system-iso.postinst
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/debian/cloud-system-iso.postinst
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+#!/bin/sh -e
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+case "$1" in
+    configure)
+        # We can safely remove the /usr/lib/cloud/agent directory
+        # All the files in there have moved to the common directory
+        # The agent directory should become a symlink to common
+        if [ -d "/usr/lib/cloud/agent" ]; then
+            rm -fr /usr/lib/cloud/agent
+        fi
+
+        # Now we symlink the common directory to agent for backwards compatibility
+        if [ ! -h "/usr/lib/cloud/agent" ]; then
+            ln -s /usr/lib/cloud/common /usr/lib/cloud/agent
+        fi
+    ;;
+esac
+