On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:43:25PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > After the upgrade to etch, I found myself generating mails with the wrong > > headers. > > Which package did you upgrade from?
I can't remember exactly (and I trashed my typescript log too :/), but I'm pretty sure that it was the 4.50 from sarge, I didn't do any partial upgrades. > > % dpkg -s exim4-config | grep email-ad > > /etc/email-addresses 6bea09fbb18e4676012105fa5fc726c6 > > % dpkg -L exim4-config | grep exim4/email-addresses > > > > /etc/exim4/email-addresses > > > > The package is owning the file (symlink) in /etc/exim4, but is not declaring > > it a conffile. > > > > On sarge, exim4-config did not include /etc/exim4/email-addresses in the > > package, and there was no bug. > > exim4-config on sarge contains /etc/email-addresses as a conffile, and > does not contain /etc/exim4/email-addresses. > > exim4-config on etch contains /etc/email-addresses as a conffile, and > contains /etc/exim4/email-addresses. > > Do I see correctly that you had a local file > /etc/exim4/email-addresses which was overwritten during the upgrade? Yes, I had a local file in /etc/exim4/email-addresses, and it got overwritten. (I originally moved the functionality into the exim4 directory because I thought it was better suited there, since it was only Exim which understood it and used it, and it made my exim4.conf clearer since I could use the CONFDIR macro to address that file, too :) > If yes, would it fix the issue to manually declare > /etc/exim4/email-addresses as a conffile? Manually? How's that? Maybe... belatedly? :) The way I see it, putting new files into /etc/ and not marking them as conffiles is a bad idea. The package should mark all of its files in /etc as conffiles, and prevent these kinds of situations from happening. (Had it been a conffile, dpkg would have noticed, and it would have prompted me to check it out.) I believe there's a Lintian warning to this effect... an error, indeed, http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tfile-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile.html Yet, it didn't seem to catch it with exim4-config. Perhaps Lintian was doing a '-f' test where '-e' would have been more appropriate. You may want to file a bug on it :) -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
