preinst is in openguides 0.65-2.
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  | #! /bin/sh
# preinst script for #PACKAGE#
#
# see: dh_installdeb(1)
set -e
. /usr/share/debconf/confmodule
# summary of how this script can be called:
#        * <new-preinst> `install'
#        * <new-preinst> `install' <old-version>
#        * <new-preinst> `upgrade' <old-version>
#        * <old-preinst> `abort-upgrade' <new-version>
#
# for details, see http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ or
# the debian-policy package
case "$1" in
    install|upgrade)
    if [ -n "$2" ]; then
        if dpkg --compare-versions $2 lt 0.55; then
            db_get openguides/check_old_upgrade || true
            if [ "$RET" = "false" ]; then
                echo "User requested not to upgrade";
                # We always want to ask this in future
                db_fset openguides/check_old_upgrade seen false
                exit 1
            fi
        fi
    fi
    ;;
    abort-upgrade)
    ;;
    *)
        echo "preinst called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2
        exit 1
    ;;
esac
# dh_installdeb will replace this with shell code automatically
# generated by other debhelper scripts.
exit 0
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