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diff --git a/debian/substitute-conffile.pl b/debian/substitute-conffile.pl
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index 7dd23363e..000000000
--- a/debian/substitute-conffile.pl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-#! /usr/bin/perl -p
-
-# This is needed for a nasty preinst hack to work around a bug in sarge's
-# version of dpkg. It substitutes the literal text of conffiles into preinst
-# scripts so that they can be used when moving conffiles between packages.
-
-BEGIN {
-    %texts = ();
-    while (@ARGV > 1) {
-        my $name = $ARGV[0];
-        shift;
-        local *FILE;
-        open FILE, '<', $ARGV[0];
-        local $/ = undef;
-        my $text = <FILE>;
-        close FILE;
-        # Quote for the shell.
-        $text =~ s/'/'\\''/g;
-        shift;
-        $texts{$name} = $text;
-    }
-}
-
-for my $name (keys %texts) {
-    s/\@$name\@/'$texts{$name}'/g;
-}