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From: Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de>
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Subject: Re: Bug#1148881: exim4-config: exim4.conf.localmacros is not parsed
 by update-exim4.conf in split-config
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On 2026-09-24 Christoph Scholzen via Pkg-exim4-maintainers <pkg-exim4-maintainers@alioth-lists.debian.net> wrote:
> Package: exim4-config
> Version: 4.96-15+deb12u10
> Severity: important

> Dear Maintainer,

> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

>    * What led up to the situation?
> Intended use of file exim4.conf.localmacros without macros beeing found in config.autogenerated and of course without any effect
[...]

Yes, that is documented behavior.

Quoting update-exim4.conf.conf(8)
 If you are not using split configuration update-exim4.conf concatenates
 /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros (if this file exists) and
 /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template (in this order) and makes the debconf re‐
 placement described below.

For split config one simply generates a new file in the correct directory
(conf.d/main for global macros).

cu Andreas]