This file is indexed.

prerm is in python-gtk2-dev 2.24.0-3ubuntu3.

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

PYTHON_DEFAULT=$(pyversions --default)

this="python-gtk2-dev"

pc_files() {
    runtime="$1"

    dpkg -L "$this" | sed -n -e "s#^/usr/lib/pkgconfig/$runtime/##p"
}

if [ "$1" = "remove" ]; then
    cd /usr/lib/pkgconfig

    for f in $(pc_files $PYTHON_DEFAULT); do
        rm -f "$f"
    done
fi