Bug#990344: exim 4.94.2 update default configuration option breaks MTA

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2021-06-26 sawbona at xsmail.com wrote:
> Hello:

> Please excuse me, it happens that english is not my native language 
> so it is quite probable that I may not have expressed myself 
> correctly.

> > Overwriting local customizations is not an option.

> I was referring to whatever files are installed by *default* by the 
> exim-config package.

> As I understand it, these files are *not* local customizations.
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Hello,

I think that assumption is not correct. dpkg will (should) only ask about
the confffile if it *was* locally changed, otherwise the files are
overwritten without asking.

cu Andreas