Bug#476987: exim4-daemon-light: fails to install: incompatible command-line options or arguments

[Laurent Fousse]

Package: exim4-daemon-light
Version: 4.69-2+b1
Severity: serious
Justification: fails to install

Hello,

I get the following installation error:

    Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.69-2+b1) ...
    Starting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments
    invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed.
    dpkg: error processing exim4-daemon-light (--configure):
     subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     exim4-daemon-light
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Looking at `EX4DEBUG=1 /etc/init.d/exim4 restart`, exim is run with
arguments "-bd -q30m '' '' ''". The three empty strings seem to
confuse exim.

Regards,

Laurent.

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.69 #1 built 12-Apr-2008 09:26:11
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.6.21: (September 27, 2007)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.2vmsplice (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages exim4-daemon-light depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.21     Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4-base                    4.69-2+b1  support files for all Exim MTA (v4
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.6                      4.6.21-7   Berkeley v4.6 Database Libraries [
ii  libgnutls26                   2.2.2-1    the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libpcre3                      7.6-2      Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi

exim4-daemon-light recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  exim4-daemon-light/drec: