Bug#534135: exim4-base: fails to refresh gnutls-params

[Rob Leslie]

Package: exim4-base
Version: 4.69-9
Severity: normal

README.Debian claims the Diffie-Hellman parameters in the file gnutls-params
will be refreshed by a daily cron job; however, they are not:

  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 424 Jul 19  2008 /var/spool/exim4/gnutls-params

In fact, the file has identical contents on every one of my Debian exim4
installations.

  # md5sum /var/spool/exim4/gnutls-params
  f1a358980648bcb8606297a1b45330da  /var/spool/exim4/gnutls-params

What's more, README.Debian claims "If the gnutls-params file gets older than
two weeks, the daily cron job starts sending out warning messages."  I have
never received any such warning.

I'm not sure if the file is not getting regenerated because of its ownership
or for some other reason.  Deleting the file causes exim to create a new one
owned by Debian-exim.


-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.69 #1 built 30-Sep-2008 18:26:35
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.6.21: (September 27, 2007)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages exim4-base depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.110      add and remove users and groups
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-105 management of regular background p
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.24     Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4-config [exim4-config-2] 4.69-9     configuration for the Exim MTA (v4
ii  libc6                         2.7-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.6                      4.6.21-11  Berkeley v4.6 Database Libraries [
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-20     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  netbase                       4.34       Basic TCP/IP networking system

Versions of packages exim4-base recommends:
ii  bsd-mailx [mailx]  8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-3 A simple mail user agent
ii  perl-modules       5.10.0-19             Core Perl modules
ii  psmisc             22.6-1                Utilities that use the proc filesy

Versions of packages exim4-base suggests:
ii  bsd-mailx [mail-re 8.1.2-0.20071201cvs-3 A simple mail user agent
ii  emacs [mail-reader 22.2+2-5              The GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
ii  emacs21 [mail-read 21.4a+1-5.6           The GNU Emacs editor
ii  emacs22 [mail-read 22.2+2-5              The GNU Emacs editor
ii  exim4-doc-html     4.69-1                documentation for the Exim MTA (v4
ii  exim4-doc-info     4.69-1                documentation for the Exim MTA (v4
pn  eximon4            <none>                (no description available)
ii  file               4.26-1                Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gnutls-bin         2.4.2-6+lenny1        the GNU TLS library - commandline 
pn  libmail-spf-query- <none>                (no description available)
ii  openssl            0.9.8g-15+lenny1      Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a
ii  swaks              0+20061116.0-2        SMTP command-line test tool

-- debconf information:
  exim4/purge_spool: false
  exim4-base/drec:
  exim4/move_exim3_spool: false