preinst is in big-cursor 3.10.
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 | #!/bin/sh
set -e
if [ "$1" = install ] || [ "$1" = upgrade ]; then
# Deal with font move in upgrade.
if [ "$1" = upgrade ] && dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt 3.5; then
dpkg-divert --package big-cursor --remove --rename --divert \
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz-small \
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/cursor.pcf.gz
fi
# Divert the regular cursor font out of the way, so our font is used
# instead. This has to happen before update-font-dir, which is why it's in
# the preinst here; if this package and xfonts-base are installed at the
# same time, it needs to run before that package is unpacked.
dpkg-divert --package big-cursor --add --rename --divert \
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/cursor.pcf.gz-small \
/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/cursor.pcf.gz
fi
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