This file is indexed.

prerm is in python2.7-minimal 2.7.3-0ubuntu3.

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 -e

syssite=/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages
localsite=/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages

case "$1" in
    remove)
	if [ "$DEBIAN_FRONTEND" != noninteractive ]; then
	    echo "Unlinking and removing bytecode for runtime python2.7"
	fi
	for hook in /usr/share/python/runtime.d/*.rtremove; do
	    [ -x $hook ] || continue
	    $hook rtremove python2.7 || continue
	done
	dpkg -L python2.7-minimal \
	    | awk '/\.py$/ {print $0"c\n" $0"o"}' \
	    | xargs rm -f >&2

	if which update-binfmts >/dev/null; then
	    update-binfmts --package python2.7 --remove python2.7 /usr/bin/python2.7
	fi

	if [ -h $syssite ]; then
	    rm -f $syssite
	fi
	[ -d $localsite ] && rmdir $localsite 2>/dev/null || true
	[ -d $(dirname $localsite) ] && rmdir $(dirname $localsite) 2>/dev/null || true
        ;;
    upgrade)
        dpkg -L python2.7-minimal \
	    | awk '/\.py$/ {print $0"c\n" $0"o"}' \
	    | xargs rm -f >&2
        ;;
    deconfigure)
        ;;
    failed-upgrade)
        ;;
    *)
        echo "prerm called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2
        exit 1
    ;;
esac