portupgrade not preserving shared libs as documented?

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On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 02:52:56 -0700
Cstdenis wrote:

> Portupgrade man page says "By default, portupgrade preserves shared 
> libraries on uninstallation for safety."
> 
> I ran i in the form of: portupgrade -b pcre
> 
> Now /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.0 does not exist anymore, only the new 
> /usr/local/lib/libpcre.so.1 is there.

It backs them up under the compat directory.