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

[Marc Haber]

Hi Josip,

sorry about your loss.

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 12:01:05PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> After the upgrade to etch, I found myself generating mails with the wrong
> headers.

Which package did you upgrade from?

> 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.

Very strange.

> % 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.

exim4-config on sarge contains /etc/email-addresses as a conffile, and
does not contain /etc/exim4/email-addresses.

exim4-config on etch contains /etc/email-addresses as a conffile, and
contains /etc/exim4/email-addresses.

Do I see correctly that you had a local file
/etc/exim4/email-addresses which was overwritten during the upgrade?
If yes, would it fix the issue to manually declare
/etc/exim4/email-addresses as a conffile?

Greetings
Marc

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