Re: Bug#99494: courier-mta 0.34 would not install

[racke@linuxia.de (Stefan Hornburg Racke)]

Mark Constable <markc@renta.net> writes:

> Package: courier-mta
> Version: 0.34.0-2
> 
> Installation process fails with this error;
> 
>  Setting up courier-mta (0.34.0-2) ...
>  cat: /etc/courier/smtpaccess/*: No such file or directory
>  dpkg: error processing courier-mta (--configure):
>   subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> 
> Workaround is to "touch /etc/courier/smtpaccess/default".
> 
> The post-install script does not seem to take into account
> that /etc/courier/smtpaccess could be a file or a directory.

No, postinst calls makesmtpaccess, which needs smtpaccess as
file or smtpaccess as directory. There is /etc/courier/smtpaccess/default
in the package, but if you manually remove /etc/courier/smtpaccess,
default isn't installed because it is a conffile.

I cc' this to debian-devel, may be there is someone with a
idea how to handle this.

Ciao
        Racke

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