Bug#426425: sa-exim: sa-exim does not depend on a recent enough version of exim

[Magnus Holmgren]

On Thursday 07 June 2007 20:16, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:59:31PM +0200, Magnus Holmgren wrote:
> > Marc &co, can you make it so that all the exim4-daemon packages Provides:
> > exim4-localscanapi-1.0 and exim4-localscanapi-1.1 [insert hyphens
> > according to taste]?
>
> Sure. Let me ask again, you want _all_ exim4-daemon-foo packages
> provide exim4-localscanapi-1.0 _AND_ exim4-localscanapi-1.1? Don't
> they only provide 1.1?

local_scan plugins compiled against ABI 1.k work with Exim daemons providing 
ABI 1.x for all x >= k, or at least that's the intention.

> >  Then sa-exim can depend on that instead, and as a bonus I get rid of
> >  the debcheck complaint that exim4-daemon-custom doesn't exist.
> >
> > Now I'm thinking about how to best get the ABI version into a
> > substvars file.  The standard way would be with a
> > /usr/bin/exim4-config in exim4-dev, but that feels like too much...
>
> Is that your issue, or ours?

*-config scripts/programs belong in -dev packages, but lacking one, it is my 
job to extract the version.

-- 
Magnus
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