Bug#648042: purging gdm deletes /etc/X11/Xsession which is a file needed by other packages

[Michael Biebl]

Am 08.11.2011 15:48, schrieb J G Miller:
> Package: gdm
> Version: 2.20.11-4
> Severity: normal
> 
> gdm sadly exists no more in "Testing" and so after today's upgrade,
> it was necessary to purge the configuration files.
> 
> This caused /etc/X11/Xsession to be deleted which should not have
> happened because this file is also part of x11-common, xdm, and wdm.

I'm pretty sure gdm does not delete that file.

gdm never owned that file nor does it have any maintainer scripts, which
remove that file.
Is it possible you meant /etc/gdm/Xsession?
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