Bug#431130: exim4-config: update-exim4.conf greps in .dpkg-old files

[Marc Haber]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 02:24:26AM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> When upgrading to exim 4.67 today I was presented with the
> "DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF found in exim configuration." message
> although I haven't received any suggestions for conffile changes (on
> the second machine, on the first one I got some debconf questions and
> all was fine).
> 
> I think the reason is line 393 in /usr/sbin/update-exim4.conf:
>   if grep -qr '^[^#]*DEBCONF[a-z]\+DEBCONF' $UPEX4C_confd $TEMPLATEFILE
> which means that update-exim4.conf greps through _all_ files under
> /etc/exim4/conf.d -- and I had some .dpkg-old files lying around
> there, and those were the only files still containing
> DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF entries.

Feature. See #431019.

Greetings
Marc

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