Package: aptitude
Version: 0.2.15.9-2
Severity: serious

Hello,

Aptitude version 0.2.15.9-2 wants during dist-upgrade to replace postfix
with exim.

IMHO is switching/replacing the MTA a serious problem.


# aptitude dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
  postfix
The following packages have been kept back:
  apache apache-common apache-utils bind9-host clamav clamav-base
  clamav-daemon clamav-freshclam dnsutils guile-1.6-libs
libapache-mod-php4
  libapache-mod-ssl libarchive-tar-perl libclamav1 libmime-perl php4
  php4-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  at exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light mdetect read-edid
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  postfix
0 packages upgraded, 7 newly installed, 1 to remove and 17 not upgraded.
Need to get 1494kB of archives. After unpacking 1483kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
Abort.


Workaround:

# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  apache2-utils libapr0 libconvert-binhex-perl libcurl3 libdns16
  libio-string-perl libzzip-0-12
The following packages will be upgraded:
  apache apache-common apache-utils bind9-host clamav clamav-base
  clamav-daemon clamav-freshclam dnsutils guile-1.6-libs
libapache-mod-php4
  libapache-mod-ssl libarchive-tar-perl libclamav1 libmime-perl php4
  php4-common
17 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 8389kB of archives.
After unpacking 1567kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]


Cheers
Geert Stappers



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