Bug#476987: exim4-daemon-light: fresh install doesn't work ("start" failed)

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2008-05-06 Teodor <mteodor at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: exim4-daemon-light Version: 4.69-5+b1
> Followup-For: Bug #476987 

> Unfortunately, a fresh install doesn't work:
> t2:~# apt-get -t sid install exim4-daemon-light
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> exim4-daemon-light is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 79 not upgraded.
> 6 not fully installed or removed.
> After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.69-5+b1) ...
[...]
> 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                    4.6.21-6     Berkeley v4.6 Database Libraries [
> ii  libgnutls26                 2.2.2-1      the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
> ii  libpcre3                    7.4-1+lenny1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi

> exim4-daemon-light recommends no packages.

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

The error is in exim4-base, and you are still using the old buggy
version.
cu andreas