[Pkg-emboss-devel] Bug#435991: Bug#435991: emboss-explorer: crontest failure find: /var/www/emboss-explorer: No such file or directory

[Filippo Giunchedi]

On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 12:13:56AM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 12:56:01PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > Le Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 04:05:47PM +0200, Filippo Giunchedi a écrit :
> > > it seems that emboss-explorer cron files are giving output when the
> > > package itself is removed (REMOVE) or its dependencies (AUTOREMOVE).
> > 
> > Dear Filippo,
> > 
> > I am affraid that I do not understand the problem. Can you give me a
> > link to the relevant part of the policy documenting the interaction
> > bewteen package removal and cron jobs?
> Actually (unfortunately) I don't think the policy specifically
> mentions this.  It does, however, mention this case for initscripts

I checked, it does in section 9.5, last sentence:

The scripts or crontab entries in these directories should check if all
necessary programs are installed before they try to execute them. Otherwise,
problems will arise when a package was removed but not purged since
configuration files are kept on the system in this situation.

filippo
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