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

[Sven Joachim]

On 2011-11-09 00:07 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:

> Are you saying that dpkg removed the file the symlink was pointing at,
> i.e. you changed
> /etc/gdm/Xsession → /etc/X11/Xsession
> with /etc/gdm/Xsession being owned by the gdm package.
> On purge dpkg removed not only the symlink but also /etc/X11/Xsession?
>
> I highly doubt that dpkg is doing that.

It's almost doing that.  In fact, it deletes _only_ the target of the
symlink, see #574658¹.

Cheers,
       Sven


¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574658