Bug#581171: dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config fails if /etc/exim4 directory does not exist

[Colin Darie]

Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.71-4
Severity: normal

For some reasons, I needed to start with a fresh config so I moved away my
/etc/exim4 directory to start with a completely new one. I discovered that
running `dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config` fails if the /etc/exim4 doesn't exist :

# dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
find: "/etc/exim4": Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
find: "/etc/exim4": Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
/var/lib/dpkg/info/exim4-config.postinst: 392: cannot create
/etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf: Directory nonexistent

It's not really an issue for me, but I think that could be useful if we could
reconfigure exim4 without an existent /etc/exim4 directory.



-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.71 #1 built 03-Apr-2010 11:29:47
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2007
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.8.26: (December 18, 2009)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages DKIM
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
GnuTLS compile-time version: 2.8.6
GnuTLS runtime version: 2.8.6

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'),
(1,'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages exim4-config depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112      add and remove users and groups
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.32     Debian configuration management sy

exim4-config recommends no packages.

exim4-config suggests no packages.