Bug#420578: exim4-config killed my email-addresses file

[Josip Rodin]

Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.63-17
Severity: grave

Hi,

After the upgrade to etch, I found myself generating mails with the wrong
headers. When I went to look why, I saw:

% ls -l /etc/exim4/email-addresses* 
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  18 2007-04-15 16:55 /etc/exim4/email-addresses -> ../email-addresses
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 208 2006-09-21 12:13 /etc/exim4/email-addresses~
% ls -l /etc/email-addresses
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 312 2003-12-19 16:41 /etc/email-addresses

The file with a tilde was the remnant of at least one edit.
And those edits are now gone.

% dpkg -s exim4-config | grep email-ad
 /etc/email-addresses 6bea09fbb18e4676012105fa5fc726c6
% dpkg -L exim4-config | grep exim4/email-addresses                                                                 
/etc/exim4/email-addresses

The package is owning the file (symlink) in /etc/exim4, but is not declaring
it a conffile.

On sarge, exim4-config did not include /etc/exim4/email-addresses in the
package, and there was no bug.

This is blatant data loss. :((

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