Bug#262262: exim4: removing exim left it running

[John]

Andreas Metzler wrote:
> 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
> 

<shrug>
reportbug didn't show it; I did nothing to prevent reportbug from checking.

Better, you appreciate the time I (and the other reporter) took to help 
you improve your software.