Bug#262262: exim4: removing exim left it running

Andreas Metzler Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>, 262262@bugs.debian.org
Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:07:33 +0200


merge 262262 261994
# please do not submit duplicate reports
thanks
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 07:37:28PM +0800, John wrote:
> Package: exim4
> Severity: normal
> 
> I've just installed Sarge using the 29/7 build of d-i.
> Immediately after restarting it, I installed postfix:
> apt-get --purge install postfix <etc>
> 
> postfix is installed and running, but still:
>  1357 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/exim4 -bd -q30m
[...]

We've been made aware of that yesterday, please see
http://bugs.debian.org/261994 "exim4: Exim daemon doesn't stop on
purge"

It seems apt is ignoring the Dependency and purges exim4-base before
uninstalling exim4-daemon-light.
                 cu andreas