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

[Michael Biebl]

Hi

Am 19.10.26 um 01:11 schrieb Marco d'Itri:
> reassign -1 localsearch
> found -1 3.8.2-9
> 
> 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...
> 

I have not actually reviewed / tested the patch from
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1145117
but it seems related and might address this issue.

A somewhat related issue is 
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741496



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