This file is indexed.

postinst is in wireshark-common 2.0.2+ga16e22e-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

. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
PROGRAM=/usr/bin/dumpcap
GROUP=wireshark

if ! dpkg-statoverride --list $PROGRAM > /dev/null; then
    db_get wireshark-common/install-setuid
    if [ -e "$PROGRAM" ]; then
	if [ "$RET" = "false" ] ; then
	    chown root:root $PROGRAM
	    chmod u=rwx,go=rx $PROGRAM
	else
	    if ! addgroup --quiet --system $GROUP; then
	        if ! getent group wireshark > /dev/null; then
		    echo "Error: $GROUP group does not exist and executing \"addgroup --quiet --system $GROUP\" failed which prevents configuring Wireshark for capturing traffic as an unprivileged user."
                    echo "Please create the $GROUP system (or user) group and try configuring wireshark-common again."
                    exit 1
                else
                    echo "Note: $GROUP is a user group, but the preferred configuration is setting it up as a system group. Purging wireshark-common will not remove the $GROUP group as a result, but otherwise everything should work properly."
                fi
	    fi
	    chown root:$GROUP $PROGRAM
	    if which setcap > /dev/null ; then
                chmod u=rwx,g=rx,o=r $PROGRAM
                if ! setcap cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin=eip $PROGRAM; then
		    echo "Error: Setting capabilities for dumpcap using Linux Capabilities failed."
		    echo "Falling back to setting set-user-id bit."
		    chmod u=rwxs,g=rx,o=r $PROGRAM
                fi
	    else
                chmod u=rwxs,g=rx,o=r $PROGRAM
	    fi
        fi
    fi
else
    echo "Preserving owner and mode for $PROGRAM set by dpkg-statoverride:"
    dpkg-statoverride --list $PROGRAM
fi