preinst is in libquantlib0-dev 1.1-2build1.
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 | #!/bin/sh -e
#
# preinst script for the Debian GNU/Linux libquantlib0-dev package
#
# Written and GPL'ed by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>   
case "$1" in
    install|upgrade)     
        # We want to remove previous versions' documentation directory
	test -d /usr/share/doc/libquantlib0-dev && \
		rm -rf /usr/share/doc/libquantlib0-dev 
	;;
    abort-upgrade)
        ;;
    *)
        echo "preinst called with unknown argument \`$1'" >&2
        ;;
esac
exit 0                 
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