Re: dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file

["Mumia W." <mumia.w.18.spam+nospam@earthlink.net>]

On 08/04/2006 06:06 AM, kevin bailey wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting the following from a vanilla install of sarge.
>
> Any pointers gratefully received - obviously I want to be careful and not
> screw up the dpkg system.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kev
>
> psctbdc2:~# apt-get dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Calculating Upgrade... Done
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   apache apache-common apache2-utils dhcp-client gnupg libapr0 libgd2-noxpm
> 7 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 2011kB/3671kB of archives.
> After unpacking 106kB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> Get:1 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main gnupg 1.4.1-1.sarge5
> [1909kB]
> Get:2 http://security.debian.org stable/updates/main dhcp-client
> 2.0pl5-19.1sarge2 [102kB]
> Fetched 2011kB in 17s (117kB/s)
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

That's a weird error because, AFAIK, none of the packages you 
were updating depend upon exim.

Perhaps you forgot to do an "aptitude upgrade" before the 
"aptitude dist-upgrade." If you continue to get the error, do 
this:

aptitude search '~Dexim' | less

and see if any of the packages that show up are in the list 
you were trying to upgrade.

PS.
That aptitude search command lists packages that depend upon 
exim.