This file is indexed.

preinst is in ifupdown2 1.0~git20170314-1.

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.

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#!/bin/sh

MYNAME="${0##*/}"

report() { echo "${MYNAME}: $*" ; }
report_err() { report "Error: $*" >&2 ; exit 1; }

preinst_divert()
{
    diversions=$(LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 dpkg-divert --list | grep "$1" | grep -v 'ifupdown2$'  | wc -l 2> /dev/null)
    if [ "$diversions" -gt 0 ];
    then
        report_err "existing diversion for $1"
    else
        dpkg-divert --add --package ifupdown2 --rename --divert "$1.disabled" "$1"
    fi
}

set -e
case "$1" in
    install|upgrade)
        for filename in ifup ifdown ifquery ifreload
        do
            preinst_divert "/sbin/$filename"
            preinst_divert "/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/$filename"
            preinst_divert "/etc/bash_completion.d/$filename"
            preinst_divert "/usr/share/man/man8/$filename.8.gz"
        done
        preinst_divert "/usr/share/man/man5/interfaces.5.gz"
        ;;
esac

dpkg-maintscript-helper rm_conffile "/etc/bash_completion.d/ifup" 1.1 -- $@