Bug#913925: debsums incorrectly reports package as not installed

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Friday, November 16, 2018 9:07:13 PM CST Axel Beckert wrote:
> Please send us the output of "dpkg -l spamassassin".

---8<---
% dpkg -l spamassassin
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                              Version               Architecture          
Description
+++-=================================-=====================-
=====================-
========================================================================
iF  spamassassin                      3.4.2-1~deb9u1        all                   
Perl-based spam filter using text analysis
--->8---

Sure enough.

Looks like some spamd process got stuck, and `service spamassassin stop` 
didn't find and kill it.  Searched it out manually, and got spamassassin to 
finish it's postinst (or whatever) setup and things are good.

debsums no longer reports that it is "not installed"

> This suspected issue has been fixed with debsums 2.2.3 (currently in
> buster and sid). From the 2.2.3 changelog entry:
> 
>   * Also allow half-configured packages to be checked.

Ah, I looked through the bugs that reportbug suggested, but none of them 
sounded like my issue.  Next time I'll try an upgrade first; the dependencies 
of debsums are generally light.  Sorry for the noise.

Feel free to close and/or reclassify as minor.

Thanks for the immediate turn-around.
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