Bug#251949: "trivial" change to config files

[Andrew Archibald]

Hi,

I'm just trying to change the port exim4 delivers to.  It seems debconf 
can't do it for me, so I went looking for it.  It appears, after reading 
a number of web pages, including part of the exim4 manual (which is 
enormous) that I need to add a "port=9025" somewhere in some config 
file.  I have no idea which config file; even if I found somewhere that 
works, I don't know if it would be clobbered by the next package 
upgrade, quitely breaking my outgoing mail delivery.

That's why it should be a debconf option: just allow host:port in the 
usual way.  No change to the dialog itself is even necessary; a patch is 
in the bug tracking system already.  It's what I'm reading to try to 
figure out how to make this work.

Andrew