evidently everything is breaking right now, so trying a different approach

debian/wit-network-config.install

@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ files/firewall etc/init.d
 files/ips.issue etc/issue.d
 files/wit-logging.conf etc/strongswan.d
 files/lldpd.wit /etc/default
-templates/wit-swanctl.conf etc/swanctl/conf.d
-templates/frr.conf.wit etc/frr
-templates/70-persistent-net.rules etc/udev/rules.d
-templates/interfaces /etc/network
-templates/ipsec.conf.wit etc
-templates/ipsec.secrets.wit etc
+debian/tmp/wit-swanctl.conf etc/swanctl/conf.d
+debian/tmp/frr.conf.wit etc/frr
+debian/tmp/70-persistent-net.rules etc/udev/rules.d
+debian/tmp/interfaces /etc/network
+debian/tmp/ipsec.conf.wit etc
+debian/tmp/ipsec.secrets.wit etc

debian/wit-network-config.postinst

@@ -22,12 +22,12 @@ case "$1" in
 
 
      ## START gather all the info from the box and generate the variabels
-        IFCONFIG="templates/interfaces"
-        UDEVCONFIG="templates/70-persistent-net.rules"
-        FRRCONFIG="templates/frr.conf.wit"
-        IPSECCONFIG="templates/ipsec.conf.wit"
-        IPSECSECRETS="templates/ipsec.secrets.wit"
-        SWANCTLCONFIG="templates/wit-swanctl.conf"
+        IFCONFIG="debian/tmp/interfaces"
+        UDEVCONFIG="debian/tmp/70-persistent-net.rules"
+        FRRCONFIG="debian/tmp/frr.conf.wit"
+        IPSECCONFIG="debian/tmp/ipsec.conf.wit"
+        IPSECSECRETS="debian/tmp/ipsec.secrets.wit"
+        SWANCTLCONFIG="debian/tmp/wit-swanctl.conf"
         DOMAINNAME=$(hostname -d)