Bug#305957: Postinstall script replaces configuration escape sequences with their expansions on upgrade

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2005-04-24 Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org> wrote:
> On 2005-04-23 Barry Kitson <b.kitson@ieee.org> wrote:
[...]
> > All appears to work if the configuration variables (ie environment
> > variables) in etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf do not contained escape
> > sequences.
[...]

I've applied the fixed patch to SVN and added another one to make th
whole thing work if /bin/sh is not bash.

> The same problem exist in update-exim4.conf, you should not need to
> specify '\\N' if you wanted '\N' to end up in the configuration file.

Do you agree with this?
                 cu andreas
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