Package: imapproxy Version: 1.2.6-4 Severity: serious This package fails to configure with the default settings when an IMAP server can't be reached on localhost:143.
Setting up imapproxy (1.2.6-4) ... Starting IMAP proxy: invoke-rc.d: initscript imapproxy, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing imapproxy (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: imapproxy Jan 20 09:10:38 testhost imapproxyd: main(): Using configuration file '/etc/imapproxy.conf' Jan 20 09:10:38 testhost imapproxyd: Using syslog facility 'LOG_MAIL' for logging. Jan 20 09:10:38 testhost in.imapproxyd[18812]: No syslog priority mask specified. Jan 20 09:10:38 testhost in.imapproxyd[18812]: main(): SELECT caching is disabled Jan 20 09:10:38 testhost in.imapproxyd[18812]: main(): Internal admin commands are disabled Jan 20 09:10:38 testhost in.imapproxyd[18812]: main(): Allocating 3072 IMAP connection structures. Jan 20 09:10:38 testhost in.imapproxyd[18812]: ServerInit(): Using '/var/log/imapproxy_protocol.log' for global protocol logging file. Jan 20 09:10:38 testhost in.imapproxyd[18812]: ServerInit(): proxying to IMAP server 'localhost'. Jan 20 09:10:38 testhost in.imapproxyd[18812]: ServerInit(): Proxying to IMAP port 143 Jan 20 09:10:38 testhost in.imapproxyd[18812]: ServerInit(): Connection refused -- exiting I'd expect retrying in the background or even leaving it disabled, but postinst failure seems too intrusive. See also #512272, which makes the postinst hang if configured with an invalid hostname. Release team, please downgrade if this is considered acceptable for the release. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-xen-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages imapproxy depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libncurses5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-14 SSL shared libraries ii libwrap0 7.6.q-16 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip imapproxy recommends no packages. imapproxy suggests no packages. -- debconf information: imapproxy/imap-server: localhost -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org