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preinst is in popularity-contest 1.57ubuntu1.

This file is a maintainer script. It is executed when installing (*inst) or removing (*rm) the package.

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#!/bin/sh

set -e

case "$1" in
install|upgrade)
# Move a conffile without triggering a dpkg question if it was not modified.
    if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" le "1.44"; then
      PKGNAME="popularity-contest"
      CONFFILE="/etc/cron.weekly/popularity-contest"
      NEWCONFFILE="/etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest"
      if [ -e "$CONFFILE" ]; then
          md5sum="`md5sum \"$CONFFILE\" | sed -e \"s/ .*//\"`"
          old_md5sum="`dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}' $PKGNAME | sed -n -e \"\\\\' $CONFFILE '{s/ obsolete$//;s/.* //p}\"`"
          if [ "$md5sum" = "$old_md5sum" ]; then
              rm -f "$CONFFILE"
          else
              mv -f "$CONFFILE" "$NEWCONFFILE"
          fi
      fi
    fi
esac