On 2007-04-23 Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:43:25PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: [...] > > If yes, would it fix the issue to manually declare > > /etc/exim4/email-addresses as a conffile?
> Manually? How's that? Maybe... belatedly? :) Well, we rely on debhelper's magic to flag everything in /etc as conffile otherwise. > 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 have got a feeling that there is a good reason why debhelper does not automatically flag symlinks as conffiles, I guess you'd end up with wrong configuration-file-changed prompts. I do not know why the symlink is there at all. Nothing in our configuration has been reading /etc/exim4/email-addresses since 4.43-3, it was added in 4.62-3. There probably was some discussion on IRC, but I cannot find anything in my email archives. I would suggest dropping the symlink from the package instead of marking it as conffile. cu andreas -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
