preinst is in yorick 2.2.02+dfsg-6ubuntu2.
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  | #!/bin/sh
set -e
case "$1" in
  install|upgrade)
    # older (unofficial) versions of yorick 2.x shipped with the package
    # manager but no debian-friendly setup. Users that have used pkg_mngr 
    # with this configuration have automatically created a pkg_setup.i file
    # we'd like them to get rid of. All this mess can certainly disappear
    # at lenny+1.
    if [   -e /usr/lib/yorick/packages/pkg_setup.i ] &&
       [ ! -h /usr/lib/yorick/packages/pkg_setup.i ]; then
	[ -e /etc/yorick/packages ] || mkdir -p /etc/yorick/packages
	if [ -e   /etc/yorick/packages/pkg_setup.i ]; then
             mv   /etc/yorick/packages/pkg_setup.i \
		  /etc/yorick/packages/pkg_setup.i.dpkg-bak
	fi
	mv /usr/lib/yorick/packages/pkg_setup.i \
	       /etc/yorick/packages/pkg_setup.i
	rm -f /etc/yorick/packages/pkg_setup_may_use_Y_HOME || true
    fi
    ;;
esac
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