Fabri, conffiles are automatically removed by dpkg.
Could you please list all the steps to reproduce the error? You said that you have removed "php5", but the cronjob is in php-common package and it has the mechanism to walk through active installed PHP versions. Cheers, -- Ondřej Surý <[email protected]> Knot DNS (https://www.knot-dns.cz/) – a high-performance DNS server Knot Resolver (https://www.knot-resolver.cz/) – secure, privacy-aware, fast DNS(SEC) resolver Vše pro chleba (https://vseprochleba.cz) – Mouky ze mlýna a potřeby pro pečení chleba všeho druhu On Sat, Aug 12, 2017, at 13:28, Fabri wrote: > Package: php-common > Version: 54 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > > * What led up to the situation? > purge removing the php5 and related deps > * What was the outcome of this action? > error mail coming from Cron because of the php cronjob still active > * What outcome did you expect instead? > the removal of /etc/cron.d/php > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: stretch(raspbian) > Architecture: arm7 > > i did a purge remove of php5 on raspbian (stretch), and then i started > receiving error notifications mail from Cron. So i discovered that a > cronjob was still active in /etc/cron.d/php to check for php sessions; > and i had to remove it manually. > > I took a quick look at php-common_54_all.deb which provide the file > /etc/cron.d/php, indeed is written in the deb conffiles > > But i did not found some removal of the /etc/cron.d/php file in postrm > or prerm, everything seems related only to the masking of > phpsessionclean.timer > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-php-maint mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-php-maint
