Testing on what I proposed to Debian seems to work fine: root@c:~# dpkg --status postfix | grep makedefs.out; ls -laF /etc/postfix/makedefs.out /usr/share/postfix/makedefs.out /etc/postfix/makedefs.out 109692331793570f2d0884efe222949b ls: cannot access '/usr/share/postfix/makedefs.out': No such file or directory -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480 May 9 12:51 /etc/postfix/makedefs.out root@c:~# apt install postfix Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Suggested packages: procmail postfix-mysql postfix-pgsql postfix-ldap postfix-pcre postfix-lmdb postfix-sqlite sasl2-bin dovecot-common resolvconf postfix-cdb mail-reader postfix-doc The following packages will be upgraded: postfix 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 47 not upgraded. Need to get 1149 kB of archives. After this operation, 239 kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ci-train-ppa-service/3415/ubuntu cosmic/main amd64 postfix amd64 3.3.0-1ubuntu2~test1 [1149 kB] Fetched 1149 kB in 1s (845 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 53910 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../postfix_3.3.0-1ubuntu2~test1_amd64.deb ... Unpacking postfix (3.3.0-1ubuntu2~test1) over (3.3.0-1ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for ufw (0.35-6) ... Processing triggers for systemd (239-7ubuntu7) ... Processing triggers for man-db (2.8.4-2) ... Processing triggers for rsyslog (8.32.0-1ubuntu5) ... Setting up postfix (3.3.0-1ubuntu2~test1) ... Removing obsolete conffile /etc/postfix/makedefs.out ...
Postfix (main.cf) configuration was not changed. If you need to make changes, edit /etc/postfix/main.cf (and others) as needed. To view Postfix configuration values, see postconf(1). After modifying main.cf, be sure to run 'service postfix reload'. Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.28-0ubuntu1) ... root@c:~# dpkg --status postfix | grep makedefs.out; ls -laF /etc/postfix/makedefs.out /usr/share/postfix/makedefs.out lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Sep 14 06:58 /etc/postfix/makedefs.out -> /usr/share/postfix/makedefs.out -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480 Sep 13 12:23 /usr/share/postfix/makedefs.out -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1791853 Title: Postfix upgrade queries about replacing /etc/postfix/makedefs.out, when it really should always do so To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/postfix/+bug/1791853/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
