Hi, I can understand that you don't want to kick out of the system conffile that the user has modified, but here it's the responsibility of the package to remove that cron script.
Why not use dpkg-maintscript-helper? This is especially made for this. Delete the conffile if it has not been modified, otherwise rename it with a .dpkg-old suffix. Cheers Laurent Bigonville -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org