Jesse Molina wrote:
> Package: courier-mta
> Version: 0.57.0-1
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> Upon an upgrade of courier-mta today, it overwrote my esmtp PAM file without 
> asking!
> 
> During installation, the following line was displayed;
> 
> "Installing new version of config file /etc/pam.d/esmtp ..."
> 
> Too bad I already had a customized esmtp file.  This cut off my ability to 
> submit new mails via authenticated relay over the MSA port.
> 
> If my memory is correct, this isn't the first time this has happened, though 
> I'm not positive.
> 
> 
> 
> Expected behavior is for the install script to ask before overwriting a 
> user-modified configuration file.  I'm pretty sure this is in policy 
> somewhere.
> 

/etc/pam.d/esmtp is a conffile, so dpkg should handle this correctly.

Regards
        Racke


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