package: cyrus-common (3.0.8-6+deb10u1) ...

Rather ancient cyrus imap store upgraded many times and does like twoskip
option as of update released 16 nov 2019.


imap seems to still work and i enclose dbtypes.txt I do not edit/adjust
with the /usr/lib/cyrus/cyrus-db-types.txt file other than the dist upgrade
to buster on release


the issue in common then affects cyrus-* too


apt upgrade output


Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
5 not fully installed or removed.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up cyrus-common (3.0.8-6+deb10u1) ...
Creating/updating cyrus user account...
The user `cyrus' is already a member of `sasl'.
/usr/lib/cyrus/bin/upgrade-db: Unknown type of DB: BACKUP
dpkg: error processing package cyrus-common (--configure):
installed cyrus-common package post-installation script subprocess returned
error exit status 1


cat /usr/lib/cyrus/cyrus-db-types.txt
ANNOTATION twoskip
BACKUP twoskip
CONVERSATIONS skiplist
DBENGINE BerkeleyDB5.3
DUPLICATE twoskip
MBOX twoskip
PTS twoskip
QUOTA quotalegacy
SEARCH_INDEXED twoskip
SEEN twoskip
SORTCACHE twoskip
STATUSCACHE twoskip
SUBS flat
TLS twoskip
USERDENY flat
ZONEINFO twoskip


dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cyrus-clients:
cyrus-clients depends on cyrus-common (>= 3.0.8); however:
 Package cyrus-common is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package cyrus-clients (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cyrus-admin:
cyrus-admin depends on cyrus-common; however:
 Package cyrus-common is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package cyrus-admin (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cyrus-imapd:
cyrus-imapd depends on cyrus-common (= 3.0.8-6+deb10u1); however:
 Package cyrus-common is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package cyrus-imapd (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of cyrus-nntpd:
cyrus-nntpd depends on cyrus-common (= 3.0.8-6+deb10u1); however:
 Package cyrus-common is not configured yet.

dpkg: error processing package cyrus-nntpd (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.28-10) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
cyrus-common
cyrus-clients
cyrus-admin
cyrus-imapd
cyrus-nntpd
needrestart is being skipped since dpkg has failed


s j west

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