preinst is in fonts-dejima-mincho 227-15.
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 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 | #!/bin/sh
#
# stolen from ttf-dzongkha/debian/ttf-dzongkha.preinst :)
# 
set -e
VERSION=220-7
PKG=ttf-dejima-mincho
FILE=/etc/defoma/hints/${PKG}.hints
# Remove a no-longer used conffile
rm_conffile() {
    local PKGNAME="$1"
    local CONFFILE="$2"
    [ -e "$CONFFILE" ] || return 0
    local md5sum="$(md5sum $CONFFILE | sed -e 's/ .*//')"
    local old_md5sum="$(dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}' $PKGNAME | \
            sed -n -e "\' $CONFFILE ' { s/ obsolete$//; s/.* //; p }")"
    if [ "$md5sum" != "$old_md5sum" ]; then
        echo "Obsolete conffile $CONFFILE has been modified by you."
        echo "Saving as $CONFFILE.dpkg-bak ..."
        mv -f "$CONFFILE" "$CONFFILE".dpkg-bak
    else
        echo "Removing obsolete conffile $CONFFILE ..."
        rm -f "$CONFFILE"
    fi
}
pathfind() {
    OLDIFS="$IFS"
    IFS=:
    for p in $PATH; do
        if [ -x "$p/$*" ]; then
            IFS="$OLDIFS"
            return 0
        fi
    done
    IFS="$OLDIFS"
    return 1
}
case "$1" in
install|upgrade)
    if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt-nl "$VERSION"; then
	if [ -f $FILE ]; then
        	if `pathfind defoma-font` ; then
			defoma-font purge-all $FILE || true
		fi
	fi
	rm_conffile $PKG $FILE
    fi
esac
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