From 0bff1235326473bb04d6ae19177c379cb2d26efa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:27:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Remove debian/dpkg.prerm

* debian/dpkg.prerm: Removed as it's empty.
* Makefile.am: Remove debian/dpkg.prerm from EXTRA_DIST.
---
 ChangeLog         |  5 +++++
 Makefile.am       |  1 -
 debian/changelog  |  1 +
 debian/dpkg.prerm | 21 ---------------------
 4 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100755 debian/dpkg.prerm

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index be588d1f..729b5e3e 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-03-15  Raphael Hertzog  <hertzog@debian.org>
+
+	* debian/dpkg.prerm: Removed as it's empty.
+	* Makefile.am: Remove debian/dpkg.prerm from EXTRA_DIST.
+
 2008-03-14  Raphael Hertzog  <hertzog@debian.org>
 
 	* scripts/Dpkg/Changelog/Debian.pm: Fix regression by re-allowing
diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 529fa65a..6f31b2b4 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \
 	debian/dpkg.postinst \
 	debian/dpkg.postrm \
 	debian/dpkg.preinst \
-	debian/dpkg.prerm \
 	debian/dpkg.logrotate \
 	debian/dpkg.lintian-overrides \
 	debian/dselect.cfg \
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 4444b7e3..4a3e9b3e 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ dpkg (1.14.17) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     - drop unused overrides
     - updated several manual pages to fix hyphen-used-as-minus-sign
     - fixed manpage-has-errors-from-man in several manual pages
+    - removed empty debian/dpkg.prerm
   * Removed old upgrade code from dpkg's preinst and postinst which only
     concerns upgrading from dpkg version older than the one in oldstable
     already. And thus we get rid of old the last usage of read in those
diff --git a/debian/dpkg.prerm b/debian/dpkg.prerm
deleted file mode 100755
index 31037e44..00000000
--- a/debian/dpkg.prerm
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,21 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh -e
-# This script can be called in the following ways:
-#
-# Before the package is removed:
-#	<prerm> remove
-#
-# Before an upgrade:
-#	<old-prerm> upgrade <new-version>
-# if that fails:
-#	<new-prerm> failed-upgrade <old-version>
-#
-#
-# Before package is deconfigured while dependency is replaced due to conflict:
-#	<prerm> deconfigure in-favour <new-package> <version>
-#		removing <old-package> <version>
-#
-# Before the package is replaced due to conflict:
-#	<prerm> remove in-favour <new-package> <version>
-
-#DEBHELPER#
-exit 0
-- 
2.39.5