Dear Maintainer,

here is the problem:

$ dpkg-query -W -f='${Conffiles}\n' | grep obsolete$
[...]
  /etc/xdg/autostart/xapp-sn-watcher.desktop a9fa3be7aaf46761adcdb856c63c125f obsolete

Simply installing libxapp1 on a system is sufficient to create this problem (no upgrade scenario is necessary).

Il 24/02/2021 09:20, Laurent Bonnaud ha scritto:
Hi, thanks for report, I saw this issue in 3 different cases where move
conffile from a package to another cause it to be marked as absolete as
reported also by other in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=886389

2 time in xapp when happened in 2.0.6-2 for xapp-sn-watcher.desktop and
rehappened in 2.2.6-1 for another move (tested on clean Sid upgrade to
experimental)

I not found a solution or workaround for now

Il 24/02/2021 09:20, Laurent Bonnaud ha scritto:
Hi, thanks for report, I saw this issue in 3 different cases where move
conffile from a package to another cause it to be marked as absolete as
reported also by other in
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=886389

2 time in xapp when happened in 2.0.6-2 for xapp-sn-watcher.desktop and
rehappened in 2.2.6-1 for another move (tested on clean Sid upgrade to
experimental)

I not found a solution or workaround for now

Hello,

Bug #983441 in xapp reported by you has been fixed in the
Git repository and is awaiting an upload. You can see the commit
message below and you can check the diff of the fix at:

https://salsa.debian.org/cinnamon-team/xapp/-/commit/8d38fd8cc19c62e2840afbdb147a96c1ce0e2aca
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d/libxapp1.conffiles: remove the stale xapp-sn-watcher autostart file

The autostart file moved from libxapp1 to xapp-sn-watcher in 2.4.2-1,
but on systems where xapp-sn-watcher is not installed, and it is only a
Recommends, dpkg keeps the file in the libxapp1 file list, re-marks it
obsolete at every upgrade and leaves it on disk forever, so the session
keeps trying to autostart a binary that is not there.

The remove-on-upgrade flag removes it exactly on those systems and is a
no-op everywhere else: dpkg skips the removal when another installed
package owns the path (pkg_remove_conffile_on_upgrade() in
src/main/unpack.c), which is what makes this safe, unlike rm_conffile.
The line can be dropped again once this version has gone through a
stable release.

Closes: #983441, #1053306

Assisted-by: Claude Code:claude-opus-5
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(this message was generated automatically)
-- 
Greetings

https://bugs.debian.org/983441

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
xapp, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 983441@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it> (supplier of updated xapp package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 2026 20:56:02 +0200
Source: xapp
Built-For-Profiles: noudeb
Architecture: source
Version: 3.2.3-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Cinnamon Team <debian-cinnamon@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it>
Closes: 983441 1053306
Changes:
 xapp (3.2.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
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