Dear Exim maintainers, The following bug was filed for the release notes. Can you review the attached proposed patch for the release notes.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 03:39:23PM +0100, Jutta Zalud wrote: > > During dist-upgrade the user is asked several times if they wish to > install new config-files provided by the maintainer of the packet, keep > their old config files, see both files to compare. The default answer > is "N" - i.e. keep the old config files, and this is usually save. But > users run into troubles, when they do not install the new config-files > for Exim4 4.69. They are left with a broken exim4 they cannot even > uninstall easyly. > > see eg: > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-exim4-users/2009-March/001587.html > http://www.mail-archive.com/exim-us...@exim.org/msg25245.html > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/2009/02/msg01318.html > > So I suggest that some warning be included into the Release notes, > that exim4-users should choose the new config-files unless they really > know what they are doing. I cut and pasted a paragraph from your NEWS file, so I guess this is correct, but you may want to provide more information. Thanks in advance, -- Nekral
Index: en/issues.dbk =================================================================== --- en/issues.dbk (révision 6878) +++ en/issues.dbk (copie de travail) @@ -441,6 +441,22 @@ </para> </section> +<section id="exim"> + <title>Upgrading exim4</title> + <para> + It is necessary to either accept the offered configuration file change + for <systemitem role="package">exim4-config</systemitem> or to + manually check a manually changed exim configuration. Exim will not + run if a configuration file of an older version is being used with a + more recent <systemitem role="package">exim4-config</systemitem>. + </para> + <para> + See the notes for version 4.67-4 in + <filename>/usr/share/doc/exim4-config/NEWS.Debian.gz</filename> + for more information. + </para> +</section> + <section id="nis"> <title><acronym>NIS</acronym> and Network Manager</title> <indexterm><primary>NIS</primary></indexterm>
