preinst is in puredata-core 0.45.4-1.
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.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 | #! /bin/sh
set -e
# older versions of puredata-core provided theses as directories,
# whereas nowadays they are symlinks to /usr/share/puredata/doc/
# so we delete the directories here to smooth upgrades
for d in 5.reference 7.stuff
do
dir=/usr/lib/puredata/doc/$d
test -d "${dir}" && rm -r "${dir}" || true
done
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