This file is indexed.

prerm is in python3.7-venv 3.7.0~b3-1.

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

set -e

remove_bytecode()
{
    pkg=$1
    max=$(LANG=C LC_ALL=C xargs --show-limits < /dev/null 2>&1 | awk '/Maximum length/ {print int($NF / 4)}')
    dpkg -L $pkg \
	| awk -F/ 'BEGIN {OFS="/"} /\.py$/ {$NF=sprintf("__pycache__/%s.*.py[co]", substr($NF,1,length($NF)-3)); print}' \
	| xargs --max-chars="$max" echo \
	| while read files; do rm -f $files; done

    find /usr/lib/python3.7/ensurepip \
	-name __pycache__ -type d -empty -print \
	| xargs -r rm -rf
}

case "$1" in
    remove)
	remove_bytecode python3.7-venv
        ;;
    upgrade)
        ;;
    deconfigure)
        ;;
    failed-upgrade)
        ;;
    *)
        echo "prerm called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2
        exit 1
    ;;
esac