preinst is in libsane-dev 1.0.27-1~experimental3ubuntu2.
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 | #!/bin/sh
set -e
case "$1" in
install|upgrade|abort-upgrade)
#
# remove obsolete files
#
rm -f /usr/bin/sane-config.*
if [ -h /usr/bin/sane-config ] ; then
rm -f /usr/bin/sane-config
fi
;;
*)
echo "preinst called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2
exit 1
;;
esac
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