Bug#439608: closed by Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de> (Re: Bug#439608: exim4-config barfs when suggested conffile changes ARE accepted (split file config))

[Marc Haber]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 01:05:06AM -0700, Cameron Dale wrote:
> On 8/26/07, Debian Bug Tracking System <owner at bugs.debian.org> wrote:
> > Please read /usr/share/doc/exim4-config/NEWS.Debian.gz for 4.67-2 and
> > 4.67-4:
> >
> > |    update-exim4.conf looks for commented UPEX4CmacrosUPEX4C (which
> > |    used to be the place marker in earlier 4.67-x versions) and barfs
> > |    if it finds them anywhere in /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template or
> > |    recursively /etc/exim4/conf.d. This check - as a feature - also
> > |    includes files that would normally be excluded by update-exim4.conf.
> 
> WTF is UPEX4C?

update-exim4.conf

> > You are therefore complaining about a documented feature.
> > Additionally, please refer to the BTS if the "bug" you're going to
> > report is already reported. This non-bug is. Multiple times.
> 
> Call it a feature if you want, it seems wrong to me. I accept all
> changes and still it barfs saying I should have accepted all changes.

Sorry, the exim4 packages tend to err to the wrong side.

> FWIW, I did scan the *84* open bugs for this and couldn't find it
> reported.

Why do you emphasize the *84*? Do you want to help in maintaining exim4?

>  Perhaps you should leave one open tagged as will-not-fix in the
>  future?

Why? Is it asked too much to scan the fixed bugs as well?

Greetings
Marc

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