Package: postfix Version: 2.3.3-1 Severity: normal The combination install of postfix and postfix-pcre seems to fine. Everything also works fine when installed. However the postfix and postfix-pcre packages are not configured under the apt repository. This means that the mail-transport-agent isn't being "Provide"d like it should be.
It appears to me that this bug maybe similar to #348645 (which I know has been resolved. But I am not entirely sure. I have my installation pinned as testing which is noted later in this email. That is the reason that I haven't experimented yet with postfix 2.3.3-4. What appears to be happening to me is that newaliases is trying to run using the proper information obtained from my /etc/postfix/main.cf and it isn't working because newaliases builds a map and I have in my main.cf: alias_maps = pcre:/etc/postfix/aliases alias_database = pcre:/etc/postfix/aliases This means that newaliases won't work since its not the expected key/value pair of a regular hash:/etc/postfix/aliases file. When I attempt to do an upgrade, the following happens: hood:~# apt-cache policy postfix postfix: Installed: 2.3.3-1 Candidate: 2.3.3-1 Version table: 2.3.3-4 0 600 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages *** 2.3.3-1 0 650 http://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status hood:~# apt-get install postfix Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done postfix is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 49 not upgraded. 2 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up postfix (2.3.3-1) ... Postfix configuration was not changed. If you need to make changes, edit /etc/postfix/main.cf (and others) as needed. To view Postfix configuration values, see postconf(1). After modifying main.cf, be sure to run '/etc/init.d/postfix reload'. Running newaliases postalias: fatal: dict_mkmap_func: unsupported dictionary type: pcre does not allow map creation. dpkg: error processing postfix (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of postfix-pcre: postfix-pcre depends on postfix; however: Package postfix is not configured yet. postfix-pcre depends on postfix (= 2.3.3-1); however: Package postfix is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing postfix-pcre (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: postfix postfix-pcre E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Thanks for the support, Eric http://eric.lubow.org/ -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages postfix depends on: ii adduser 3.97 Add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.6 Debian configuration management sy ii dpkg 1.13.22 package maintenance system for Deb ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdb4.3 4.3.29-6 Berkeley v4.3 Database Libraries [ ii libsasl2 2.1.19.dfsg1-0.5 Authentication abstraction library ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8c-3 SSL shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.1-15 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii netbase 4.25 Basic TCP/IP networking system ii ssl-cert 1.0.13 Simple debconf wrapper for openssl Versions of packages postfix recommends: ii mailx [mail-read 1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent ii mutt [mail-reade 1.5.13-1 text-based mailreader supporting M -- debconf information excluded -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]