[SA-exim] Debian issue w/exim4_i386.deb, depends on libc6 2.2.5-14.3

[Dave Plonka]

SA-Exim users,

I'm using Marc's (sa-)exim4 Debian package on my machines running the
stable "woody" distribution.  The problem is that the current stable
libc6 is version 2.2.5-11.2, but the "exim4_i386.deb" here:

   http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/files/exim4_i386.deb

wants 2.2.5-14.3, which happens to be the current version from "testing"
distribution.

As an q&d workaround, I installed it like this:

   dpkg --install --ignore-depends=libc6 exim4_i386.deb

and sa-exim works fine, but now dselect is very unhappy.  It won't let
me do anything else (unless I switch from "exim4" back to "exim")
because the dependency rules were broken.

Is there an easy way for me to rebuild the package to just depend on
the stable libc6 - or is this something you could fix, Marc?  It would
make the package more useful to those of us trying to stay with the
stable code.

If this is a misguided question, other Debian users please suggest to
me what my best strategy is.  Should I have just built from source and
stayed out of the way of the Debian packages?  I'm afraid to switch to
"testing" since I've always just run the "stable" distribution.  If I
change to "testing" in "source.list", dselect will want to upgrade all
packages to the "testing" version, right?  Ugh.

Thanks,
Dave

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