On Tue, 5 May 2026 07:49:08 +0300 Michael Tokarev <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04.05.2026 22:48, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote: > > On Mon, May 04, 2026 at 06:04:49PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote: > >> package: postfix-cdb > >> version: 3.11.0-4 > >> severity: serious > >> > >> justification: i think this imust be some kind of policy violation, > >> and it makes other mta break > > [..] > >> dpkg: postfix: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you requested: > >> postfix-cdb depends on postfix (= 3.11.0-4). > > > > This means APT broke the defined dependencies and thus all > > guarantees policy gives go out of the window. This is not per-se a > > bug in postfix-cdb (but maybe it needs to work around APT). > > This is a bit more interesting, actually. Because postfix itself > depends on postfix-cdb now (since cdb is the default map type), > so there's a circular dependency. > > The correct solution to this is to merge postfix-cdb into postfix. > I didn't want to do that yet, because upgrade/downgrade path will > be more difficult. But it seems like there's no other choice.
Found the same issue while working on something unrelated, and this workaround seems enough to make it work, even if maybe not ideal: https://salsa.debian.org/postfix-team/postfix-dev/-/merge_requests/53/diffs?commit_id=a4a2a7a68e01863df4bbe6c2d7b104caa2768d43
