Debian Jessie To Stretch

After succesfull upgrade from Jessie to Stretch via:

Jessie:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade

and after changing the APT-sources to Stretch:

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade

the desktop environment (XFCE4, Gnome, KDE, etc.) did not start - the monitor showed a blank screen.

The solution was to create the file ".xsession" in the home folder, with the content:

#!/bin/sh
exec startxfce4

After reboot, the desktop environment was started successfully.
The interesting question now is, why was this file not necessary in "Jessie" ?

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