apticron installs both 'cron.d/apticron' and 'cron.daily/apticron'

[Gioele Barabucci]

Binary package hint: apticron

The deb package for apticron 1.1.42 installs both 'cron.d/apticron' and 'cron.daily/apticron', resulting in the apticron script being called twice during the day.

[Morten Bressendorff Schmidt (morten-tuxtail)]

It seems that only 'cron.daily/apticron' is in the pakage
'cron.d/apticron' must relate to a post-install-script or something

[Gioele Barabucci (gioele)]

You are right, 'cron.d/apticron' is created by the `post-inst` script:

    cat <<EOF >"$tmpfile"
    # cron entry for apticron

    $min $hour * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/apticron && /usr/sbin/apticron --cron
    EOF

    ucf --debconf-ok --three-way "$tmpfile" /etc/cron.d/apticron

The changelog file does not contain an explanation for this addition/duplication. I suspect that the author of `post-inst` meant to use '/etc/cron.daily/apticron', not its '/etc/cron.d/' twin. This would explain why they are identical.

[Gioele Barabucci (gioele)]

Moving to Confirmed after manual inspection of the post-install-script file.

[Gioele Barabucci (gioele)]

Solved in apticron 1.1.43, now available in Debian archives as apticron 1.1.44, please update Ubuntu's apticron to that version.

http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/apticron/apticron_1.1.44/changelog#versionversion1.1.43

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package apticron - 1.1.45

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apticron (1.1.45) unstable; urgency=low

  * Improve re for matching hold packages. Thanks to Slavko. (Closes: #607826)
  * Remove cron.daily from old apticron installations. Thanks to Salvatore
    Bonaccorso. (Closes: #587597)
 -- Felix Geyer <email address hidden> Mon, 03 Jan 2011 12:02:43 -0200