Bug#999612: exim 4.94.5 installation configures IPv6 by default on IPv4 only machines

2021-11-13 Thread sawbona
Package: exim4 Version: 4.94.5 Severity: grave On installation, Exim 4.94.5 will enable IPv6 *by default*, ignoring several mechanisms in place to explicitly disable IPv6: 1. A kernel command line explicitly disabling ipv6: [code] ipv6.disable=1 [/code] 2. An /etc/hosts file with no machine re

Bug#990344: Additional information

2021-07-15 Thread sawbona
On 15 Jul 2021 at 8:40, Marc Haber wrote: > This has nothing to do with exim. If you intended to file a new > bug for the backintime package, please use the reportbug tool. Yes. It was a typo. I immediately sent notice to ow...@bugs.debian.org. --- Good afternoon: Please delete/disregard the la

Bug#990344: Additional information

2021-07-14 Thread sawbona
3 #delay warning to give logger some time to import 1464 import _thread 1465 _thread.start_new_thread(__log_keyring_warning, ()) 1466 # logger.warning('import keyring failed') 1467 [/code] Thanks in advance, sawbona

Bug#990344: exim 4.94.2 update default configuration option breaks MTA

2021-06-29 Thread sawbona
Hello: Thank you very much for taking the time to write. On 29 Jun 2021 at 19:05, Marc Haber wrote: > The "exim installer" is called dpkg and is a core package ... Yes, I am quite aware of that. Which is *exactly* the reason I did not file a bug against dpkg. If anything, in the many years I ha

Bug#990344: exim 4.94.2 update default configuration option breaks MTA

2021-06-29 Thread sawbona
Hello: Thank you for taking the time to write. > ... exim packages do not change/edit the file, if it was changed > then manually. Right. The userland cannot change it, it's only through *manual* edition. Now I'm *sure* I didn't change anything. I had never seen the insides of an exim config fil

Bug#990344: exim 4.94.2 update default configuration option breaks MTA

2021-06-26 Thread sawbona
Hello: On 26 Jun 2021 at 15:12, Andreas Metzler wrote: > I think that assumption is not correct. dpkg will (should) only ask > about the confffile if it *was* locally changed, otherwise the files are > overwritten without asking. I see ... The thing is that I don't remember *ever* changing any e

Bug#990344: exim 4.94.2 update default configuration option breaks MTA

2021-06-26 Thread sawbona
Hello: Please excuse me, it happens that english is not my native language so it is quite probable that I may not have expressed myself correctly. > Overwriting local customizations is not an option. I was referring to whatever files are installed by *default* by the exim-config package. As

Bug#990344: exim 4.94.2 update default configuration option breaks MTA

2021-06-26 Thread sawbona
Package: exim4 Version: 4.94 Severity: grave Half way through the update to exim 4.94.2, the installer pops up a warning in the terminal informing that the configuration file being installed is different to the one in place and prompts to choose what to do: 1. keep the installed configuration