Bug#261994: exim4: Exim daemon doesn't stop on purge

[Marc Haber]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 04:22:51PM +0200, Tilman Koschnick wrote:
> Console output:
> 
> (Reading database ... 63619 files and directories currently installed.) 
> 
> Removing exim4 ...
> dpkg: exim4-base: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request:
>  exim4-daemon-light depends on exim4-base (>= 4.32).
> Removing exim4-base ...
> Purging configuration files for exim4-base ...
> Removing exim4-config ...
> Purging configuration files for exim4-config ...
> dpkg: exim4-daemon-light: dependency problems, but removing anyway as 
> you request:
>  at depends on mail-transport-agent; however:
>   Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>   Package exim4-daemon-light which provides mail-transport-agent is to 
> be removed.
>  mailx depends on exim4 | mail-transport-agent; however:
>   Package exim4 is not installed.
>   Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
>   Package exim4-daemon-light which provides mail-transport-agent is to 
> be removed.
> Removing exim4-daemon-light ...
> Selecting previously deselected package postfix.
> (Reading database ... 63464 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking postfix (from .../postfix_2.1.3-1_i386.deb) ...
> Adding `diversion of /usr/share/man/man8/smtpd.8.gz to 
> /usr/share/man/man8/smtpd.real.8.gz by postfix'
> Setting up postfix (2.1.3-1) ...

Hm. Can you retry with EX4DEBUG set to some non-zero value?

Greetings
Marc

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