[Please always CC the bug report 648...@bugs.debian.org] Am 08.11.2011 23:49, schrieb J G Miller: > At 15:56h, on Tuesday, November 08, 2011, > in message <4eb9432e.4000...@debian.org>, > on the subject of "Re: Bug#648042: purging gdm > deletes /etc/X11/Xsession which is a file needed by other > packages", you wrote - > > > Am 08.11.2011 15:48, schrieb J G Miller: > > > Package: gdm > > > Version: 2.20.11-4 > > > Severity: normal > > > > > > gdm sadly exists no more in "Testing" and so after today's upgrade, > > > it was necessary to purge the configuration files. > > > > > > This caused /etc/X11/Xsession to be deleted which should not have > > > happened because this file is also part of x11-common, xdm, and > wdm. > > > I'm pretty sure gdm does not delete that file. > > > > gdm never owned that file nor does it have any maintainer scripts, > which > remove that file. > > Is it possible you meant /etc/gdm/Xsession? > > Further investigation reveals that because of my highly customized > setup, /etc/gdm/Xsession was a link to /etc/X11/Xsession, similarly the > the files /etc/gdm/Init/Default, /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default > /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default were symbolic links to files in > /etc/X11/dm, and had forgotten about this when I made the bug report. > > So what I would have expected to happen is that dpkg --purge would > have removed the symbolic links and the /etc/gdm files but not the > files themselves in the other directories. > > Perhaps I am expecting too much, in which case the bug report > should be closed as being an unreasonable expectation, and that > I should have unlinked the files before doing a purge.
Are you saying that dpkg removed the file the symlink was pointing at, i.e. you changed /etc/gdm/Xsession → /etc/X11/Xsession with /etc/gdm/Xsession being owned by the gdm package. On purge dpkg removed not only the symlink but also /etc/X11/Xsession? I highly doubt that dpkg is doing that. But I'm CCing the dpkg maintainers just in case. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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