Bug#445327: exim4-config: update-exim4.conf does not ignore .dpkg-* files

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 06:43:24PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 09:08:25AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 10:13:44AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > However the DEBCONF.. stuff was in .dpkg-old files left behind by
> > > configuration updates. It looks like update-exim4.conf isn't ignoring
> > > those (possibly even for generating the config file).
> > 
> > Documnted feature, see NEWS.
> 
> I read the NEWS.Debian.gz files for exim4-base, exim4-config and
> exim4-daemon-light and I don't see any mention of .dpkg-old or
> .dpkg-dist files. Could you please be more specific?

exim4-config:
exim4 (4.67-4) unstable; urgency=low

    Since a lot of users did not read the docs while upgrading and
    filed bug reports about exim4-config failing to install due to a
    "malformed macro definition", update-exim4.conf.conf now checks
    for DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF strings anywhere in
    /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template or recursively /etc/exim4/conf.d
    and barfs if such strings are found. This check - as a feature - also
    includes files that would normally be excluded by
    update-exim4.conf.

Last sentence.

Greetings
Marc

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