Bug#519111: release-notes: exim4-upgrade fails when choosing "N"

[Nicolas François]

Dear Exim maintainers,

The following bug was filed for the release notes.
Can you review the attached proposed patch for the release notes.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 03:39:23PM +0100, Jutta Zalud wrote:
> 
> During dist-upgrade the user is asked several times if they wish to 
> install new config-files provided by the maintainer of the packet, keep 
> their old config files, see both files to compare. The default answer 
> is "N" - i.e. keep the old config files, and this is usually save. But 
> users run into troubles, when they do not install the new config-files 
> for Exim4 4.69. They are left with a broken exim4 they cannot even 
> uninstall easyly. 
> 
> see eg: 
> http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-exim4-users/2009-March/001587.html
> http://www.mail-archive.com/exim-users@exim.org/msg25245.html
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/2009/02/msg01318.html
> 
> So I suggest that some warning be included into the Release notes, 
> that exim4-users should choose the new config-files unless they really 
> know what they are doing.

I cut and pasted a paragraph from your NEWS file, so I guess this is
correct, but you may want to provide more information.

Thanks in advance,
-- 
Nekral
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