Hi, On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 08:43:12AM -0700, D. R. Evans wrote: > Andy Smith wrote on 11/26/25 4:16 PM: > > apt-xaipian-index got removed from Debian so this is a file left behind > > from a package that no longer exists nor is supported. > > > > Such packages aren't removed on an upgrade. > > > > You should just remove apt-xapian-index. > > Oh, OK. Thank you. (I'm a bit surprised that an upgrade will leave > now-unused files from prior versions of debian hanging around in the /etc > tree; but I guess that they have their reasons for doing that.)
Imagine the reaction if an upgrade removed a package that you actually use and you can't even reinstall it very easily because it's no longer in Debian. The issue you have here is that apt-xapian-index (and its cron.weekly file) remains installed because it was already there, but some of the other python features it depends upon no longer work in the way it expects. So you can run the command but it fails to work; any fix should happen in apt-xapian-index but that is no longer developed. Possibly the advice to remove it could be worth mentioning in the release notes… Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
