preinst is in tracker-miner-fs 2.0.4-1.
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  | #!/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
        # Do nothing to preserve local modifications. The file in
        # /etc/sysctl.d will override the one from /usr/lib/sysctl.d.
        :
    else
        echo "Removing obsolete conffile $CONFFILE ..."
        rm -f "$CONFFILE"
    fi
}
case "$1" in
    install|upgrade)
        if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt-nl "2.0.4-1~"; then
            rm_conffile tracker-miner-fs "/etc/sysctl.d/30-tracker.conf"
        fi
    ;;
esac
# Automatically added by dh_installdeb/11.1.4ubuntu1
dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-user-guides.desktop 2.0.4-1\~ tracker-miner-fs -- "$@"
# End automatically added section
exit 0
 |