Bug#375720: exim4-config: cannot be installed in chroot

[Martin Lohmeier]

Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.62-2
Severity: important

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The package is unable to be installed using pbuilder / cdebootstrap.
After enabling debugging in cdebootstrap and running

pbuilder create

I can see the following messages:

[...]
O: Setting up exim4-config (4.62-2) ...
P: Configuring package exim4-config
D: Updating exim4-config to status 3
O: hostname: 
O: Host name lookup failure
O: 
O: hostname: 
O: Host name lookup failure
O: 
O: Adding system-user for exim (v4)
O: chage: the shadow password file is not present
O: adduser: `/usr/bin/chage -M 99999 Debian-exim' returned error code 15.  Aborting.
O: Setting up libpcre3 (6.4-2) ...
P: Configuring package libpcre3
D: Updating libpcre3 to status 3
O: dpkg: error processing exim4-config (--configure):
O:  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
[...]

This make the whole process fail.

bye, Martin

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (700, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.1
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

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