Bug#1125017: init-system-helpers: "dpkg --purge tracker-extract" removes a symlink from package localsearch

[Vincent Lefevre]

Control: reassign -1 localsearch
Control: found -1 3.8.2-9
Control: affects -1 - src:localsearch

Hi,

On 2026-10-19 01:11:43 +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> reassign -1 localsearch
> found -1 3.8.2-9

You forgot the "Control:". Due to the reassign, I'm also removing
the "affects" and Cc'ing the maintainer list (full quoted message
kept below for this reason).

> On Feb 05, Jeremy Bícha <jbicha at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> Reassigning because everybody agrees that there is nothing
> init-system-helpers can do about this now.
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 8, 2026 at 3:40 PM Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> > > b/ the localsearch package neuters the tracker-extract postrm maintainer
> > > scripts
> > > 
> > > A small variation of b/: The localsearch package explicitly purges the
> > > tracker-search state before installing its own symlinks.
> > I'm not sure how to do that, but I'd appreciate patches or merge
> > requests for this issue.
> 
> In preinst of localsearch if the conditions are right (it is being installed
> for the first time) just
> rm -f /var/lib/dpkg/info/tracker-extract.postrm.
> 
> I did this multiple times in the past to work around this kind of issues and
> it really works...

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