Bug#1053306: libxapp1: xapp-sn-watcher.desktop file should be in the xapp-sn-watcher debian package
On Sun, 1 Oct 2023 13:49:56 +0200 Fabio Fantoni
<fantonifabio@tiscali.it> wrote:
> Il 01/10/2023 12:33, Alban Browaeys ha scritto:
> > Package: libxapp1
> > Version: 2.6.1-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> > I get this error in my logs:
> > oct. 01 12:19:15 hermes systemd-xdg-autostart-generator[501717]:
Exec binary '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xapps/sn-watcher/xapp-sn-
watcher' does not exist: No such file or directory
> > oct. 01 12:19:15 hermes systemd-xdg-autostart-generator[501717]:
/etc/xdg/autostart/xapp-sn-watcher.desktop: not generating unit, error
parsing Exec= line: No such file or directory
> >
> > it turns out I have libxapp1:amd64 2.6.1-1 installed but not xapp-
sn-watcher.
> >
> > I believe the xapp-sn-watcher.desktop shipped by libxapp1 should be
shipped by
> > the xapp-sn-watcher package.
>
> Hi, from the version you are reporting xapp-sn-watcher.desktop is
> already in xapp-sn-watcher package:
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/xapp-sn-watcher/filelist
>
> file was moved latest time in 2.4.2-1 (from xapp package) and first
time
> in 2.2.6-1 (from libxapp1)
>
> I suppose the issue you spotted is related to old conffile moved (in
> case your system was upgraded and was installed intially with version
<
> 2.2.6-1, where there was the first move from libxapp1), relating to
it
> there is https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=983441 but
is
> blocked by another bug in dpkg (that I'm unable to fix it) and as
wrote
> in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=886389 is
> impossible use rm_conffile in case of move from one binary package to
> another of the same source or the file of the new package will be
> removed broking it
>
> since the unexpected case you spotted is more that simply "mark as
> obsolete" I think is good to reply on bug #886389 that now seems
> considered minor and without progress
>
I reported to both bug reports because there is something specific to
my issue.
In my case the desktop file is not only marked as obsolete in the
database. It is also still marked as owned by the old package libxapp1
... weird:
$ dpkg -L libxapp1
/.
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapp.so.2.6.1
/usr/share
/usr/share/doc
/usr/share/doc/libxapp1
/usr/share/doc/libxapp1/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/libxapp1/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/libxapp1/copyright
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxapp.so.1
/etc/xdg/autostart/xapp-sn-watcher.desktop
$ apt policy libxapp1
libxapp1:
Installé : 2.6.1-1
Candidat : 2.6.1-1
Table de version :
*** 2.6.1-1 500
90 http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid/main amd64 Packages
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
2.4.2-3 500
500 http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm/main amd64 Packages
1.2.2-1 500
500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
ls /etc/xdg/autostart/xapp-sn-watcher.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/xapp-sn-watcher.desktop
dpkg -S /etc/xdg/autostart/xapp-sn-watcher.desktop
libxapp1:amd64: /etc/xdg/autostart/xapp-sn-watcher.desktop
dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | grep obsolete$ |grep xapp-sn
/etc/xdg/autostart/xapp-sn-watcher.desktop a9fa3be7aaf46761adcdb856c63c125f obsolete
It could still be
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=886389
still all the report I found in it, tell the files are owned by the new
package but still marked as obsolete.
Here, the file is still owned by the old package. I do not even have
the new package xapp-sn-watcher installed.
So maybe it is the same bug but without installing the new package the
ownership is also not removed from the old package.
This might help define the origin of this bug.
Cheers,
Alban
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