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

[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...

-- 
ciao,
Marco
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