Dear Exim maintainers,
The following bug was filed for the release notes.
Can you review the attached proposed patch for the release notes.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 03:39:23PM +0100, Jutta Zalud wrote:
During dist-upgrade the user is asked several times if they wish to
install new config-files provided by the maintainer of the packet, keep
their old config files, see both files to compare. The default answer
is N - i.e. keep the old config files, and this is usually save. But
users run into troubles, when they do not install the new config-files
for Exim4 4.69. They are left with a broken exim4 they cannot even
uninstall easyly.
see eg:
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-exim4-users/2009-March/001587.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/exim-us...@exim.org/msg25245.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/2009/02/msg01318.html
So I suggest that some warning be included into the Release notes,
that exim4-users should choose the new config-files unless they really
know what they are doing.
I cut and pasted a paragraph from your NEWS file, so I guess this is
correct, but you may want to provide more information.
Thanks in advance,
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Nekral
Index: en/issues.dbk
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--- en/issues.dbk (révision 6878)
+++ en/issues.dbk (copie de travail)
@@ -441,6 +441,22 @@
/para
/section
+section id=exim
+ titleUpgrading exim4/title
+ para
+It is necessary to either accept the offered configuration file change
+for systemitem role=packageexim4-config/systemitem or to
+manually check a manually changed exim configuration. Exim will not
+run if a configuration file of an older version is being used with a
+more recent systemitem role=packageexim4-config/systemitem.
+ /para
+ para
+See the notes for version 4.67-4 in
+filename/usr/share/doc/exim4-config/NEWS.Debian.gz/filename
+for more information.
+ /para
+/section
+
section id=nis
titleacronymNIS/acronym and Network Manager/title
indextermprimaryNIS/primary/indexterm
