Bug#1113704: localsearch: /etc/systemd/user/gnome-session.target.wants/localsearch-3.service disappears after package rename

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2025-09-25 04:29:33 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> # aptitude install tracker-extract
> 
> will remove tracker-extract, but not purge it, so that the
> /etc/systemd/user/gnome-session.target.wants/localsearch-3.service
> symbolic link is still there.
> 
> But later (immediately after or much later), the user may want to
> purge tracker-extract for cleanup:
> 
> # dpkg --purge tracker-extract
> 
> And this time, this removes the above symbolic link.

BTW, something else that needs to be considered:

The user may have replaced
/etc/systemd/user/gnome-session.target.wants/localsearch-3.service
by their own symlink (or some plain file?). If this is removed by
"dpkg --purge tracker-extract" (while the file actually belongs to
localsearch), this could be very bad.

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