Bug#376460: exim4-config: response of yes to Hide local mail name in outgoing mail? seems to produce dc_hide_mailname='false'

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Sat Jul 8 08:50:34 UTC 2006


On 2006-07-08 Marc Haber <mh+pkg-exim4-maintainers at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 08:00:06PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > On 2006-07-07 Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> > [...]
> > > I am, however, wondering whether it would be a cleaner approach to set
> > > all variables we use later in the script to sane default values just
> > > before ue4cc is sourced.
> > 
> > For some variables we use "not set" to detect questions that have not
> > been seen (or preset by pre-generating update-exim4.conf.conf) and if
> > this the case set setup-specific defaults.

> I fail to see the connection of your answer to my question ;)

If you set up all debconf variable to some default value at a central
location in the very beginning it is not possible to do the thing I
described. But I guess I just did not nderstand your suggestion. ;-)
cu andreas
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