Bug#439608: exim4-config barfs when suggested conffile changes ARE accepted (split file config)

[Cameron Dale]

Package: exim4
Version: 4.67-8
Severity: normal


Using a split config file setup, even after accepting the suggested
config file changes during the upgrade, update-exim4 still says:

Starting MTA:DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF found in exim configuration.
This is most probably caused by you upgrading to exim4 4.67-3 or
later without accepting the suggested conffile changes. Please read
/usr/share/doc/exim4-config/NEWS.Debian.gz for 4.67-2 and 4.67-4
 exim4.

grepping shows:

user at localhost:/etc/exim4$ sudo grep -r DEBCONF *
conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp_smarthost.dpkg-old:  DEBCONFheaders_rewriteDEBCONF
conf.d/transport/30_exim4-config_remote_smtp_smarthost.dpkg-old:  DEBCONFreturn_pathDEBCONF
update-exim4.conf.conf:# the DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF strings in the configuration template files.

So I guess it is looking in the *.dpkg-old files for
DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF entries, which it probably shouldn't. It's
not too serious though, as it still generates the config file, and
exim still starts. It just seems ominous to the uninformed users
like me. :)

Thanks,
Cameron


-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.67 #1 built 19-Aug-2007 13:50:39
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 4.3.29: (September  6, 2005)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-1-vserver-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages exim4 depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.14     Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4-base                    4.67-8     support files for all Exim MTA (v4
ii  exim4-daemon-light            4.67-8     lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon

exim4 recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* exim4/drec: