Package: postfix
Version: 3.0.4-5
Severity: normal
With the recent 3.0 Postfix now complains with "backwards-compatible
default settings" warnings about the package default settings in the
master.cf file. Specifically the chroot default has changed from yes
to no. This causes a new warning to be logged.
Please improve postfix's packaged master.cf file to avoid these
warnings on a new pristine installation. I see and note that
debian/patches/40_chroot_by_default.diff is used to modify the file to
turn on chroots and probably just needs to be updated.
Please also include a NEWS.Debian entry to highlight this change and
instruct what needs to be done to avoid the warning. In order to get
things going let me suggest this potential text for a NEWS entry.
Introduced in Postfix 3.0 the master.cf chroot default value has
changed from "y" (yes) to "n" (no). If the chroot field is left at
its implicit default value of "-", and the backwards-compatible
default setting is turned on, Postfix will log the following message
while it reads the master.cf file:
postfix/master[27664]: /etc/postfix/master.cf: line 72: using
backwards-compatible default setting chroot=y
Admins upgrading and wishing to avoid this warning should change the
existing "-" chroot field entries to "y" in master.cf and verify.
Then to disable the backwards-compatible check edit main.cf and set
compatibility_level=2 in main.cf and then reload. See
http://www.postfix.org/COMPATIBILITY_README.html for details.
Thanks for maintaining Postfix in Debian.
Bob
