Removing debathena-counterlog mails root once a day

[xavid]

Removing debathena-counterlog doesn't really do anything, because /etc/cron.daily/debathena-counterlog, being a conf file, doesn't get removed. Moreover, if you also remove its dependencies, like machtype, this leads to it sending mail to root once a day. Solutions that occur to me include removing /etc/cron.daily/debathena-counterlog if it's unmodified or putting some sort of check there so it doesn't run if it would cause an error. Removing it would be best, but I'm not sure how that's viewed in the debian way of life.

[jdreed]

It seems like the easiest thing to do is to move the code from /etc/cron.daily/debathena-counterlog into, say, /usr/sbin/debathena-counterlog or something, and then the cron script just runs /usr/sbin/debathena-counterlog if it exists. Removing the package would remove /usr/sbin/debathena-counterlog, thus solving the problem.

[tabbott]

Indeed, jdreed's proposal is the standard way that one handles this problem; it's common in many Debian packages.

[broder]

Fixed in r23725 and r23726 and uploaded to -proposed. I'll plan to move this to production late Tuesday barring objections.

[broder]

Just deployed to production