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

[Marc Haber]

On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 07:19:19PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Ok, but may I ask why not just ignore the .dpkg-old files?

I have seen people .include .dpkg-old and .dpkg-new files.

> dpkg leaves them behind when you do upgrade the config files, meaning
> there isn't any way to avoid fixing this problem by hand.

They files are only generated when you have manually touched the files
before (at least dpkg is supposed to only do this in that case), so
you need to manually interfere anyway.

> If nothing else could you specifically mention .dpkg-dist/.dpkg-old so
> that a search for those keywords would find this clause?

*sigh* Done.

Greetings
Marc

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