[Pkg-exim4-users] Upgrade re-accept question

[Andreas Metzler]

Wm. Josiah Erikson <josiah at insanetechnology.com> wrote:
> I think this is more like a dpkg usage question, but I can't find the
> answer on google or in the manpage or in the documentation it's pointing
> me to. It's pretty much, I think, the simplest question one could have
> about this situation...
> So I upgraded exim4 and I got the errors that everybody knows so well:

> Setting up exim4-config (4.69-2) ...
> DEBCONFsomethingDEBCONF found in exim configuration. This is most probably
> caused by you upgrading to exim4 4.67-3 or later without accepting the
> suggested conffile changes. Please read
> /usr/share/doc/exim4-config/NEWS.Debian.gz for 4.67-2 and 4.67-4
[...]
> ....but how do I re-run the script so that I can accept said proposed
> changes? It's true I didn't accept them the first time.... I usually
> don't accept changes to files that I changed myself, because it tends to
> break my config, but clearly in this case I made the wrong choice.

This is all about dpkg conffiles. You should have one (or more)
.dpkg-dist files in /etc/exim4. You will need to port forward your
local modification of the respective file to the dpkg-dist version and
use this one instead.

cu andreas

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