Package: exim4-base Version: 4.90.1-1 Severity: important
guys. this is really serious. i have been running an exim4 system, live, for over 12 years. it's an extremely complex and comprehensive setup that cannot just be blithely "upgraded" without a hell of a lot of work. you've just completely ignored the most BASIC rules of being a maintainer for a package: DON'T fuck with peoples' configurations. it is just a pure coincidence that i happen to be migrating a server, and happened to have an older version which is still live and has NOT been upgraded. if i had been forced into doing an upgrade on the live server (which has happened at least once with exim4 in the past twelve years) it would have been absolutely fucking disastrous. running update-exim4.conf should JUST WORK. your job is NOT to fucking well IMPOSE on people arbitrary changes that are guaranteed to break a mission-critical server! it doesn't matter if you're not being paid to work on this stuff because you're volunteers. if people are complaining and raising bugreports your response should NOT BE TO BITCH AND BLAME THEM for quotes NOT READING THE DOCUMENTATION quotes, your response should be, "oh fuck, *we* fucked up by BREAKING PEOPLE's SYSTEMS AND CAUSING THEM SERIOUS PROBLEMS". alright. sorry for shouting, but if someone doesn't shout at you about this, there's the risk that it might not get through that what you've done and the approach you're taking is not ok (i can see in the install logs the warning signs that you're blaming users for not reading documentation). -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.4 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages exim4-base depends on: ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii anacron 2.3-19 ii cron [cron-daemon] 3.0pl1-124 ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.59 ii exim4-config [exim4-config-2] 4.90.1-1 ii libc6 2.23-4 ii libdb5.3 5.3.28-3 ii lsb-base 4.1+Debian8+deb7u1 ii netbase 5.0 Versions of packages exim4-base recommends: ii bsd-mailx [mailx] 8.1.2-0.20111106cvs-1 ii psmisc 22.19-1+deb7u1 Versions of packages exim4-base suggests: ii bsd-mailx [mail-reader] 8.1.2-0.20111106cvs-1 pn exim4-doc-html | exim4-doc-info <none> pn eximon4 <none> ii file 1:5.20-1 ii mutt [mail-reader] 1.5.21-6.2+deb7u2 ii openssl 1.0.1e-2+deb7u6 pn spf-tools-perl <none> pn swaks <none> -- debconf information excluded
