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Bug#508644: Sorting out mail-transport-agent mess for squeeze



Hi,

<h01ger> http://paste.debian.net/90185/ - thats on a squeeze system - any 
ideas?
<h01ger> bitten by "my own" bug: #508644
<h01ger> and ssmtp misses a provides: default-mta - is that serious, 
important, wishlist?

the log mentioned above is this: 

root@sun:~# dpkg -l ssmtp
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                           
Description
+++-=================================-=================================-==================================================================================
un  ssmtp                             <none>                            (no 
description available)
root@sun:~# apt-get install ssmtp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  exim4-daemon-light
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  exim4-daemon-heavy
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 509kB of archives.
After this operation, 111kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main exim4-daemon-heavy i386 
4.72-1 [509kB]
Fetched 509kB in 0s (5667kB/s)       
Preconfiguring packages ...
dpkg: exim4-daemon-light: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you 
requested:
 exim4 depends on exim4-daemon-light | exim4-daemon-heavy | 
exim4-daemon-custom; however:
  Package exim4-daemon-light is to be removed.
  Package exim4-daemon-heavy is not installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-custom is not installed.
 bsd-mailx depends on default-mta | mail-transport-agent; however:
  Package default-mta is not installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-light which provides default-mta is to be removed.
  Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-heavy which provides mail-transport-agent is not 
installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-light which provides mail-transport-agent is to be 
removed.
 logcheck depends on default-mta | mail-transport-agent; however:
  Package default-mta is not installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-light which provides default-mta is to be removed.
  Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-heavy which provides mail-transport-agent is not 
installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-light which provides mail-transport-agent is to be 
removed.
 bsd-mailx depends on default-mta | mail-transport-agent; however:
  Package default-mta is not installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-light which provides default-mta is to be removed.
  Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-heavy which provides mail-transport-agent is not 
installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-light which provides mail-transport-agent is to be 
removed.
 logcheck depends on default-mta | mail-transport-agent; however:
  Package default-mta is not installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-light which provides default-mta is to be removed.
  Package mail-transport-agent is not installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-heavy which provides mail-transport-agent is not 
installed.
  Package exim4-daemon-light which provides mail-transport-agent is to be 
removed.
(Reading database ... 51078 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing exim4-daemon-light ...
Stopping MTA: exim4_listener.
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Selecting previously deselected package exim4-daemon-heavy.
(Reading database ... 51050 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking exim4-daemon-heavy (from .../exim4-daemon-heavy_4.72-1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up exim4-daemon-heavy (4.72-1) ...
Starting MTA: exim4.
[ Rootkit Hunter version 1.3.6 ]
File updated: searched for 162 files, found 129
root@sun:~# apt-get install ssmtp
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  exim4-daemon-heavy
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  exim4-daemon-light
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 460kB of archives.
After this operation, 111kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
root@sun:~# 

I'm filing an important bug on ssmtp now.


cheers,
	Holger

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