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

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2025-09-01 14:27:17 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> 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.

Or init-system-helpers. The /var/lib/dpkg/info/tracker-extract.postrm
file from tracker-extract 3.8.2-4 has

# Automatically added by dh_installsystemduser/13.24.1
if [ "$1" = "purge" ]; then
        if [ -z "$DPKG_ROOT" ] && [ -x "/usr/bin/deb-systemd-helper" ] ; then
                deb-systemd-helper --user purge 'localsearch-3.service' >/dev/null || true
        fi
fi
# End automatically added section

I suppose that the purge of the service should occur *only if* the
package "owns" the service.

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