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

[Vincent Lefevre]

Control: retitle -1 localsearch: /etc/systemd/user/gnome-session.target.wants/localsearch-3.service disappears when tracker-extract 3.8.2-4 is purged due to package rename

On 2025-09-01 13:55:55 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Note that I don't know *when* this symbolic link has been removed
> (unfortunately, the logs don't say anything about it). So it could
> have potentially been done by the purge of tracker-extract while
> this symbolic link is now managed by localsearch. So, a bug in the
> old tracker-extract package.

I could reproduce the issue after removing localsearch and
reinstalling tracker-extract/stable (3.8.2-4+b1).

If both localsearch and tracker-extract are upgraded to 3.8.2-6 and
tracker-extract 3.8.2-6 is purged afterwards, then the symbolic link
is preserved.

But if tracker-extract is removed without being upgraded first
(this occurs with aptitude, which detects that tracker-extract
is no longer needed from dependencies[*]), then the symbolic link
is removed when tracker-extract is purged. So this is a bug in
either localsearch 3.8.2-6 or tracker-extract 3.8.2-4.

[*]
cventin% aptitude why tracker-extract
i   tinysparql      Recommends localsearch
i A tracker-extract Provides   localsearch

So when localsearch is marked to be installed, tracker-extract is
no longer needed.

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