Bug#433422: exim4: complains inappropriately about DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF on upgrade

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 06:32:55PM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote:
> I do think there is a real bug here.

I do not.

>  Removing the files in question makes the error message go away:

It is a warning. Exim will run if the configuration is correct even if
the warning is printed.

What is so bad about removing the offending files.

> I don't understand why it makes sense for your searching code to look 
> for DEBCONF in those files -- no sane configuration would ever include 
> them, and they are easy to generate in the process of normal admin tasks.

And it is easy to either disable the warning, or to remove the
offending files. _MUCH_ easier than having update-exim4.conf parsing
the configuration, just to take care of people who are too stupid to
read the docs.

I might consider a patch, but I am not going to implement this myself.

If you still disagree, take this to the tech ctte or to debian-devel.

Greetings
Marc

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