Bug#392831: exim4-config: colons or semi colons as separators (debconf templates issue)

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 11:48:13PM +0100, Binzberger Viktor wrote:
> Your 'fix' just caused us a few hours of clueless debugging.

Sorry about that.

>  Using lsearch;/etc/mail/domains in dc_other_domains is a very common
>  method of implementing simple virtual domains.

It was never supported. The value has always only be documented as a
list of domains.

We actually documented that in NEWS.Debian for exim4 4.62-7, so your
debugging session would have been significantly shorter if you had
actually read the docs before installing the software.

>  Now, with your update, our existing setup broke, and it just simply
>  didn't occur to us, that the update script could be so stupid as to
>  REPLACE the semicolons, instead of HALTING WITH AN ERROR (or a
>  warning), which would be a reasonable behaviour in such situations.

Halting with an error if semicolons are found in an input field that
is supposed to be a semicolon-separated list is kind of a non-option,
don't you agree?

If you disagree with the maintainer's decision, please take this to
debian-devel, and/or to the tech ctte.

Greetings
Marc

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