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

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 08:17:16AM -0300, sawbona at xsmail.com wrote:
> It would make a lot more sense (and would have saved me a lot of 
> grief) if the exim 4.94.2 installer would have popped up something 
> like this:

The "exim installer" is called dpkg and is a core package of Debian. You
can file bugs against it using "reportbug dpkg". The dpkg-conffile
prompts are issued by dpkg, and it is neither possible to influence
those prompts from a package nor are we allowed by policy to "manually"
tamper with dpkg-conffiles from within a package maintainer script.

This probably concludes what we as exim maintainers can say and/or do.
You have a point, but you should take this up to the dpkg maintainer who
would be in a position to change a user interface that has been mainly
unchanged for two decades. Personally, I think it would be a very bad
idea to change this three weeks for a planned release date.

I apologize, but there is nothing the Debian exim maintainers can to
other than to pop up a warning which we actually already do. And no,
three weeks before a planned release date we are not going to change the
wording of this warning.

Greetings
Marc

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