I am able to work around this if I install postfix first and then mdadm:
$ sudo apt-get install postfix
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
procmail postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap postfix-pcre sasl2-bin
resolvconf
postfix-cdb
The following NEW packages will be installed:
postfix
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 61 not upgraded.
Need to get 1219kB of archives.
After this operation, 2994kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main postfix 2.5.5-1 [1219kB]
Fetched 1219kB in 4s (278kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package postfix.
(Reading database ... 92792 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking postfix (from .../postfix_2.5.5-1_i386.deb) ...
...
$ sudo apt-get install mdam
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
mdadm
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 61 not upgraded.
Need to get 233kB of archives.
After this operation, 659kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main mdadm 2.6.7-3ubuntu8 [233kB]
Fetched 233kB in 1s (137kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package mdadm.
(Reading database ... 92953 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mdadm (from .../mdadm_2.6.7-3ubuntu8_i386.deb) ...
...
Not sure why trying to install mdamd & postfix at the same time causes
problems.
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Installing mdadm also installs citadel-common, etc.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/280414
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