On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 02:29:49PM +0000, Robie Basak wrote: > If in wheezy I enable spamd by setting ENABLED=1 in > /etc/default/spamassassin, and then I upgrade to jessie, then spamd > stops automatically starting after a reboot due to the switch to > systemd. > > Workaround: "systemctl enable spamassassin.service" > > I do get a conffile prompt and do see the message telling me about this. > However, various things can suppress that, and the default is usually to > retain the existing configuration. > > I wonder if you have an opinion on an upgrade path that detects this > situation in the postinst and enables this automatically if ENABLED=1 > was previously set?
Thanks. I do think that we should preserve ENABLED=1 across upgrades. It should probably get fixed ahead of the stretch release, since that's when it's going to actually matter. If you're able to provide a postinst patch, I'd happily consider it. Otherwise I'll get to it as soon as I can... noah
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