Bug#296597: exim4-config: Please add -o (output file) option to update-exim4.conf.template

[Marc Sherman]

Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.34-10
Severity: wishlist

A -o option would be useful on update-exim4.conf.template, to generate a
sample "one big config" from the installed conf.d files when
dc_use_split_config='false'.

This is useful when considering migrating from one-big-file to conf.d --
generate the sample big file from the installed original conf.d files, 
using -o to avoid overwriting the live exim4.conf.template, then diff the 
two files to discover all local mods that need to be migrated.

The script should run without -r if -o is given.

I know, given my recent posts on exim-users, this might seem like a
strange request -- I actually like the conf.d system for advanced users
who know what they're doing, I just think it's the wrong default for
debian's default MTA.

Thanks,
- Marc

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.34 #1 built 05-Jan-2005 11:07:49
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2004
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.2.9: (May 26, 2004)
Support for: iconv() IPv6 PAM Perl GnuTLS
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch ldap ldapdn ldapm mysql nis nis0 passwd pgsql
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext spa
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral iplookup manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore/mbx autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Contains exiscan-acl patch revision 21 (c) Tom Kistner [http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/]
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7
Locale: LANG=en_CA, LC_CTYPE=en_CA (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages exim4-config depends on:
ii  adduser                     3.59         Add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.4.30.11    Debian configuration management sy
ii  passwd                      1:4.0.3-30.9 change and administer password and

-- debconf information excluded