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

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2006-10-14 Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de> wrote:
[...]
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:42:48PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 09:34:50PM +0200, Alexandre Fayolle wrote:
> > >  But it is probably better to have both lists use the same separator.
> > >  If exim4 expects colons, the config script could sed s/;/:/ that line
> > >  before writing it in the update-exim4.conf.conf file. 

> > The actual fix will be a little harder, since older installs might
> > actually still use a colon-separated list. We need to detect whether
> > semicolons or colons were used as separator and generate the
> > appropriately correct replacement value.

> Actually, your suggested fix is fine. Domain names can neither contain
> colons nor semicolons, so we can safely replace and pass colon
> separated lists to exim regardless of what is entered. It's the most
> easy way.

Domain *names* cannot, exim domain *lists* can.
dc_other_hostnames='dsearch; CONFDIR/vdom:m26s25.vlinux.de'

cu andreas
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