Bug#270681: exim4-base: cleanup failure on package removal

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2004-09-09 Brian O'Reilly <fade@deepsky.com> wrote:
> On September 9, 2004 02:54 am, Andreas Metzler wrote:
[...]
> > Please show the output of
> > logrotate -d
> > and
> > dpkg -l '*exim4*'
> > on a broken system.

> unfortunately, I don't have an affected system available to me
> anymore. At the time of the error there was no 'ii' output from the
> 'dpkg -l "*exim4*"' command I ran. the 'logrotate -d
> /etc/logrotate.conf' command I ran showed logrotate dieing at
> /etc/logrotate.d/exim4 with an error about user "Debian-exim4"  not
> existing.

Thanks, that is all the info I need. - You probably *purged*
exim4-config and /removed/ exim4-base.

Afaict the only proper fix to prevent this would be to never remove
the Debian-exim user.
    cu andreas
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