Config...Scripts(3pm)

💖 NAME 💖

okay bestie, so you know how there's this whole lil config-manual thing called Config...Scripts(3pm)? ✨ It's the manual page for Config::Model::models::Dpkg::PackageScripts — a Configuration class — and it's filed under User Contributed Perl Documentation. Yes, the name has three dots in it, don't @ me, that's just how it's written. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Basically? These are the Configuration classes used by Config::Model. That's the whole vibe. It's config-class homework, and here's what's inside it. 🎀

🌸 Elements 🌸

Like, four of them. Each one is Optional, each one is a Type string, and each one links back to Debian Policy — specifically https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#document-ch-maintainerscripts — because that's where the lore lives. 📜

🧚 preinst — script called before a package is unpacked

For details, see Debian Policy: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#document-ch-maintainerscripts

Optional. Type string.

🧚 postinst — script called after a package is unpacked

For details, see Debian Policy: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#document-ch-maintainerscripts

Optional. Type string.

🧚 prerm — script called before a package is removed

For details, see Debian Policy: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#document-ch-maintainerscripts

Optional. Type string.

🧚 postrm — script called after a package is removed

For details, see Debian Policy: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/#document-ch-maintainerscripts

Optional. Type string.

not me clocking the pattern: pre/post × inst/rm. before-unpack, after-unpack, before-remove, after-remove. that's the whole lifecycle arc and it ate, honestly 💀🔥

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

• cme — the main character, bestie. go look at it. iykyk 🫶

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and that's the page, fr fr 🌈 this absolute gem is perl v5.42.3, dated 2026-08-30, and it goes by Config...Scripts(3pm) — mwah, iconic, no notes 💅💖✨