Bug#314529: base-config wants to remove a valid mail system and install unwanted packages

["Martin A. Brooks" <martin@hinterlands.org>]

Steve Langasek wrote:
> It's not bogus at all; it's a perfectly valid result of installing a package
> from one suite while you're running another.  You almost certainly need to
> be doing a dist-upgrade here first, 


I was. 'upgrade' holds back the package.


> version of base-config on a sarge system, or else specifying on the
> commandline that you want both base-config and exim4-daemon-heavy to be
> installed.

The dist-upgrade should see I already have exim4-daemon-heavy installed 
and be happy with that.

"apt-get install base-config exim4-daemon-heavy" does indeed do what I 
want, but it's nuts that the default behaviour is to break a working system.