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

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