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+.\" dpkg manual page - deb-prerm(5)
+.\"
+.\" Copyright © 2016 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
+.\"
+.\" This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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+.\" (at your option) any later version.
+.\"
+.\" This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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+.\"
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+.\" along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+.
+.TH deb\-prerm 5 "%RELEASE_DATE%" "%VERSION%" "dpkg suite"
+.nh
+.SH NAME
+deb\-prerm \- package pre-removal maintainer script
+.
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+prerm
+.
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+A package can perform several pre-removal actions via maintainer
+scripts, by including an executable \fIprerm\fP file in its control
+archive (i.e. \fIDEBIAN/prerm\fP during package creation).
+.PP
+The script can be called in the following ways:
+.TP
+\fIprerm\fP \fBremove\fP
+Before the package is removed.
+.TP
+\fIold-prerm\fP \fBupgrade\fP \fInew-version\fP
+Before an upgrade.
+.TP
+\fInew-prerm\fP \fBfailed-upgrade\fP \fIold-version new-version\fP
+If the above \fBupgrade\fP fails.
+.TP
+\fIprerm\fP \fBdeconfigure in-favour\fP \fInew-package new-version\fP
+.TQ
+    [ \fBremoving\fP \fIold-package old-version\fP ]
+Before package is deconfigured while dependency is replaced due to conflict.
+.TP
+\fIprerm\fP \fBremove in-favour\fP \fInew-package new-version\fP
+Before the package is replaced due to conflict.
+.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR dpkg (1).