cacti uninstall doesn't remove poller cron

[Micah Gersten]

Binary package hint: cacti

Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

cacti:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 0.8.7b-2.1ubuntu2
  Version table:
     0.8.7b-2.1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/universe Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

When I uninstalled cacti, I expected the poller cron to be removed. It was not:
Apr 23 23:10:01 <redacted_name> /USR/SBIN/CRON[11412]: (www-data) CMD (php /usr/share/cacti/site/poller.php >/dev/null 2>/var/log/cacti/poller-error.log)

[Paul Gevers (paul-climbing)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

If I look at the Debian policy section 10.7 [1] it says:
"""
As noted elsewhere, /etc/init.d scripts, /etc/default files, scripts installed in /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}, and cron configuration installed in /etc/cron.d must be treated as configuration files. In general, any script that embeds configuration information is de-facto a configuration file and should be treated as such.
"""
Furthermore in 10.7.3:
"""
configuration files must be preserved when the package is removed, and only deleted when the package is purged.
"""

So I believe this is intended behavior. Please correct me if I am wrong. If you want the cron job to be removed, purge the package instead of only uninstalling it.

[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-config-files