Bug#890236: exim4-daemon-heavy: /usr/sbin/exim4 -bV with log_selector = arguments logs to stderr

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2018-02-12 Paul Slootman <paul at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: exim4-daemon-heavy
> Version: 4.90.1-1
> Severity: normal

> After upgrading from 4.89-2 to 4.90-1.1 I get a mail from the cron.daily
> run, due to /usr/sbin/exim4 -bV outputting this line to stderr instead
> of to /var/log/exim4/mainlog like it used to:

> 2018-02-12 11:34:05.084 [29152] cwd=/tmp 2 args: /usr/sbin/exim4 -bV

> I do have "arguments" included in my log_selector, I find it useful to
> see that, in the mainlog. Apparently something has changed so that it
> now logs to stderr.

> Please revert to the old behaviour.

Hello,
I am unable to verify that exim's behavior has changed from 4.89-2 to
4.90.1-1 in this respect:
ametzler at argenau:/tmp/EXIM4$ exim4-daemon-light_4.89-1_amd64/usr/sbin/exim4 -bV > /dev/null
2018-02-12 19:02:03 cwd=/tmp/EXIM4 2 args: exim4-daemon-light_4.89-1_amd64/usr/sbin/exim4 -bV
ametzler at argenau:/tmp/EXIM4$ exim4-daemon-light_4.90.1-1_amd64/usr/sbin/exim4 -bV > /dev/null
2018-02-12 19:02:17 cwd=/tmp/EXIM4 2 args: exim4-daemon-light_4.90.1-1_amd64/usr/sbin/exim4 -bV

cu Andreas
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