I just ran into this issue.  Here's how I worked around it:

# dpkg-statoverride --list
root crontab 2755 /usr/bin/crontab
root Debian-exim 640 /etc/exim4/passwd.client

# dpkg-statoverride --remove /etc/exim4/passwd.client

# dpkg-statoverride --list
root crontab 2755 /usr/bin/crontab

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