preinst is in jabberd2 2.6.1-3build1.
This file is a maintainer script. It is executed when installing (*inst) or removing (*rm) the package.
The actual contents of the file can be viewed below.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51  | #!/bin/sh
set -e
# remove a no-longer used conffile
rm_conffile() {
    local PKGNAME="$1"
    local CONFFILE="$2"
    [ -e "$CONFFILE" ] || return 0
    local md5sum="$(md5sum $CONFFILE | sed -e 's/ .*//')"
    local old_md5sum="$(dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}' $PKGNAME | \
            sed -n -e "\' $CONFFILE ' { s/ obsolete$//; s/.* //; p }")"
    if [ "$md5sum" != "$old_md5sum" ]; then
        echo "Obsolete conffile $CONFFILE has been modified by you."
        echo "Saving as $CONFFILE.dpkg-bak ..."
        mv -f "$CONFFILE" "$CONFFILE".dpkg-bak
    else
        echo "Removing obsolete conffile $CONFFILE ..."
        rm -f "$CONFFILE"
    fi
}
case "$1" in
    install|upgrade)
    ;;
    abort-upgrade)
    ;;
    *)
        echo "preinst called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2
        exit 1
    ;;
esac
if ! getent group | grep -q "^jabber:"
then
   addgroup --system jabber
fi
if ! getent passwd | grep -q "^jabber:"
then
   adduser --system --home /var/lib/jabberd2 --no-create-home \
   --quiet --disabled-password --ingroup jabber jabber
fi
exit 0
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