Bug#565613: exim4: syntax error: unknown group 'Debian-exim' in statoverride file

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2010-01-17 Sascha Silbe <sascha-debian-bugs-exim4-1 at silbe.org> wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks unrelated software


> Reason for marking critical: Until /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride is fixed manually (even dpkg-statoverride --remove doesn't work anymore) all package management operations fail.

> Replacing exim4 with nullmailer causes aptitude/dpkg to break:

> dpkg: unrecoverable fatal error, aborting:
>  syntax error: unknown group 'Debian-exim' in statoverride file
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
[...]

Hello,

the major question is: What/who removed the Debian-exim group? The
exim4 packages don't.

cu andreas

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