Comment 40 for bug 14660

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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 22:49:13 +0200
From: Marc Haber <email address hidden>
To: Vincent Lefevre <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#301906: exim4: Mail messages sent to local addresses are lost

On Tue, Mar 29, 2005 at 09:46:18PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> BTW, /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf says:
>
> # Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
> # yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
>
> so the user may think that he has the full control of this file,

He has, but it is generated by debconf. Debconf reads in the file
and takes the values from there during reconfiguration of the package,
but having multiple versions of the file replacing each other
depending on environment is pretty exotic. That file is not a
dpkg-conffile for a reason, and there is no code that can read
administrator's minds.

> IMHO, the comment should be updated.

Frankly, I don't think that it makes sense to re-iterate the code
handling the file in a comment. Policy is pretty clear how
configuration files and conffiles are to be handled, and the code that
handles ue4.conf.conf is a shell script. And we never had the goal of
supporting 100 % of all possible configurations in the first place.

I don't see what the exim4 packages can do within reasonable bounds
regarding to this particular problem without leaving a gazillion of
other possible error cases unhandled.

Greetings
Marc

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