Bug#625647: exim4: Exim configuration error→error in ACL: unknown ACL condition/modifier

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2011-05-04 Cyril Brulebois <kibi at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: exim4-daemon-light
> Version: 4.75-2+b1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: Trivial configuration but non-working package

> Hi,

> upgrading exim4 from 4.75-2 to 4.75-2+b1 broke my quite trivial and
> straightforward smarthost configuration:
> | Starting MTA:2011-05-04 21:03:21 Exim configuration error in line 236 of /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp:
> |   error in ACL: unknown ACL condition/modifier in "{/etc/exim4/local_host_whitelist}{}}"
> | Invalid new configfile /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp, not installing
> | /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp to /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
> | invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed.
[...]

> Not sure it's related to #624696 so filing this bug for now.
[...]

I have no quick idea about this, but #624696 seems to have been a
temporary toolchain/build-dep breakage which I cannot reproduce
anymore.  Please check whether 4.75-3 (uploaded 20 minutes ago) also
fixes this strange breakage on PowerPC.

thanks, cu andreas