Resolves: #1354078 - drop the %pre scriptlet

... which is no longer needed.  Fileutils, Shellutils, and Textutils
were merged into GNU Coreutils in 2002.  It should be safe not to handle
the transition now in 2016.

coreutils.spec

@@ -307,16 +307,6 @@ grep LC_TIME %name.lang | cut -d'/' -f1-6 | sed -e 's/) /) %%dir /g' >>%name.lan
 # (sb) Deal with Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found
 rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_infodir}/dir
 
-%pre common
-# We must deinstall these info files since they're merged in
-# coreutils.info. else their postun'll be run too late
-# and install-info will fail badly because of duplicates
-for file in sh-utils textutils fileutils; do
-  if [ -f %{_infodir}/$file.info.gz ]; then
-    /sbin/install-info --delete %{_infodir}/$file.info.gz --dir=%{_infodir}/dir &> /dev/null || :
-  fi
-done
-
 %preun common
 if [ $1 = 0 ]; then
   if [ -f %{_infodir}/%{name}.info.gz ]; then
@@ -355,6 +345,7 @@ fi
 
 %changelog
 * Mon Jul 11 2016 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 8.25-12
+- drop the %%pre scriptlet, which is no longer needed (#1354078)
 - clarify recognition of "^COLOR.*none" in /etc/DIR_COLORS (#1349579)
 
 * Thu Jul 07 2016 Jakub Martisko <jamartis@redhat.com> - 8.25-11