On 2016-04-19 23:31, Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > Why would it be wrong to remove cron job? Because of potential modifications, > right?
configuration files must be retained after removal, they are only removed during purge conffiles (i.e. configuration files *shipped* by the package in /etc and managed by dpkg) must not be touched by maintainer scripts (removal would be noticed by dpkg and will be remembered - the file won't come back on upgrade/reinstallation (unless the package is purged inbetween); modification will cause dpkg to prompt about a "modified conffile" upon upgrades) (see the respective policy sections for longer definitions of 'configuration file' and 'conffile') Andreas
