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From: Nicolas Lichtmaier <nick@Feedback.com.ar>
Subject: dpkg: Executable conffiles in /etc/cron.*/ run even if package is deinstalled.
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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.8

I have this:

$ l /etc/cron.weekly/man*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       148 Mar 31  1996 /etc/cron.weekly/man*
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     root       255 Feb 26 15:08 /etc/cron.weekly/man-db*


$ dpkg -l man man-db
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
rc  man             2.3.10-18      Display the on-line manual.
ii  man-db          2.3.10-33      Display the on-line manual.

 When a package is removed (not purged) it removes itself from rc scripts,
and from places like that. However, executable conffiles executed by
run-parts are still executed. dpkg can chmod -x file or something...
 This can turn into annoying behaviours... in this example, the catpages
would be created twice!