Bug#832351: init-system-helpers: purging gdm3/lightdm/sddm/xdm leaves dangling /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service symlink

[Michael Biebl]

Am 24.07.2016 um 15:49 schrieb Andreas Beckmann:
> Package: init-system-helpers
> Version: 1.22
> Severity: important
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: piuparts
> Control: affects -1 + gdm3 lightdm sddm xdm
> Control: found -1 sddm/0.13.0-1
> Control: found -1 xdm/1:1.1.11-3
> 
> Hi,
> 
> during tests with piuparts I noticed the same behavior in 4 packages
> providing a display-manager service: a dangling symlink is left after
> purge. Some have individual bugs filed (lightdm: #775385, gdm3:
> #771085), but this is more likely a bug somewhere in the helpers being
> used. Notice, that after purge no other package providing a
> display-manager service was installed any more.
> 

Those links are not created by init-system-helpers, so it's probably the
wrong package to assign this bug too.
The display-manager.service symlink has some custom code in the
maintainer scripts of the individual packages.

We can use this bug report though, to come up with a scheme, how to do
that properly.
Then again, we already have
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764607 which is sort
of related.




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