postrm is in binutils-multiarch 2.22-6ubuntu1.
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.
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set -e
this_ver=2.22-6ubuntu1; # this version
# action: upgrade, abort-upgrade, remove, abort-install, disappear,
# purge, or failed-upgrade.
context=$1
if
	test "$context" = failed-upgrade &&
	dpkg --compare-versions "$this_ver" lt "$2"
then
	# postrm of the future failed.
	# Who knows what it was supposed to do?  Abort.
	exit 1
fi
new_ver=; # version replacing this one, if any.
case "$context" in
failed-upgrade)
	new_ver=$this_ver ;;
abort-install|disappear)
	new_ver= ;;
*)
	new_ver=$2 ;;
esac
diversion() {
	local added_ver divertto file
	added_ver=$1
	file=$2
	divertto=${3-$file.single}
	if
		test "$context" != purge &&
		dpkg --compare-versions "$new_ver" lt "$added_ver"
	then
		dpkg-divert --package binutils-multiarch \
			--remove --rename --divert "$divertto" "$file"
	fi
}
for prog in nm objdump objcopy strings strip size \
            ar ranlib addr2line gprof readelf
do
	diversion 2.9.5.0.16-1 "/usr/bin/$prog"
done
if [ "$1" = "remove" ]; then
	ldconfig
fi
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