Now, this is kind-of an odd one. I've got Dovecot2 installed on Squeeze from squeeze-backports. Originally, I had installed Dovecot (1) from the regular repository. However, there seems to have been one package left in a kind-of hanging state: dovecot-common from version 1. I discovered this when I did a
aptitude search '~c' to see if there were any packages that I could clean up (I don't like to leave config files laying around when I've removed something). Several were found, including the old dovecot-common package (which as of version 2, is a transitional package that doesn't need to be there). So, having found several packages with the above command, I did a aptitude purge '~p' to clean them up. Everything *except* dovecot-common went away. When it got to dovecot-common, it just gave me an error message. Oh, and it deleted /etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf for me before erroring out. Oops. Thankfully I found a backup copy in /usr/share/dovecot which I was able to copy back. :-) But in the meantime, I've still got this old reference to version 1 dovecot-common. > # aptitude search '~c' > c dovecot-common - Transitional package for dovecot > # dpkg -s dovecot-common > Package: dovecot-common > Status: purge ok config-files > Priority: optional > Section: mail > Installed-Size: 18948 > Maintainer: Dovecot Maintainers <jaldhar-dove...@debian.org> > Architecture: amd64 > Source: dovecot > Version: 1:1.2.15-7 > Replaces: dovecot > Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.7), libcomerr2 (>= 1.01), libdb4.8, > libgssapi-krb5-2 (>= 1.8+dfsg), libk5crypto3 (>= 1.6.dfsg.2), libkrb5-3 (>= > 1.6.dfsg.2), libldap-2.4-2 (>= 2.4.7), libmysqlclient16 (>= 5.1.21-1), > libpam0g (>= 0.99.7.1), libpq5 (>= 8.4~0cvs20090328), libsqlite3-0 (>= > 3.7.3), libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8m-1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), libpam-runtime (>= > 0.76-13.1), openssl, adduser, ucf (>= 2.0020) > Suggests: ntp > Description: secure mail server that supports mbox and maildir mailboxes > Dovecot is a mail server whose major goals are security and extreme > reliability. It tries very hard to handle all error conditions and verify > that all data is valid, making it nearly impossible to crash. It should > also be pretty fast, extensible, and portable. > . > This package contains the files used by both the dovecot IMAP and POP3 > servers > and the Dovecot LDA (deliver). > Homepage: http://dovecot.org/ I suppose it's not actually hurting anything by remaining there, but I'd prefer to get it to purged status (p) when doing a "aptitude search dovcot" and looking at the list if I can. So, the question is: *Is* there a way I can get it to clear that "c" flag and put it back to a "p" like it should be? How to get rid of the error when trying to purge it? (Or if it's really purged, then back to how to get it to *list* it as being purged?) Do I need to remove/purge all my dovecot packages and reinstall after getting -common out? (I'd prefer to NOT do that if it can be avoided.) --Dave
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