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

[Brian O'Reilly]

On September 9, 2004 10:43 am, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> 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.

I guess this is a wishlist item, but it sure would be nice if exim played 
better with the other MTA's in the debian world. It's a serious hassle to 
replace it with any other MTA except postfix. I guess this is a wishlist 
item?

-Brian