Bug#1053306: libxapp1: xapp-sn-watcher.desktop file should be in the xapp-sn-watcher debian package

[Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it>]

Il 03/10/2023 21:21, Alban Browaeys ha scritto:
> $ 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
this is for xapp-sn-watcher not installed in this case rm_conffile will 
works correctly but installing also xapp-sn-watcher will remove 
xapp-sn-watcher.desktop broking it after the upgrade so I couldn't do it 
as I wrote, I did some tests looking for a workaround but unfortunately 
I didn't find any and the "best" solution was to not to use rm_conffile.

after this new issue (with people that don't install recommends) I 
thinked about increase to depends but I think is a problem have circular 
depends (xapp-sn-watcher depends on libxapp1)

so I suppose that the best thing it would fix that old bug in dpkg, but 
I don't know how

or someone have another idea? any advice is welcome

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