On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:51:39PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 01:43:25PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > > > After the upgrade to etch, I found myself generating mails with the wrong > > > headers. > > > > Which package did you upgrade from? > > I can't remember exactly (and I trashed my typescript log too :/), > but I'm pretty sure that it was the 4.50 from sarge, I didn't do any partial > upgrades.
Ok, I can reproduce this behavior now. > > exim4-config on sarge contains /etc/email-addresses as a conffile, and > > does not contain /etc/exim4/email-addresses. > > > > exim4-config on etch contains /etc/email-addresses as a conffile, and > > contains /etc/exim4/email-addresses. > > > > Do I see correctly that you had a local file > > /etc/exim4/email-addresses which was overwritten during the upgrade? > > Yes, I had a local file in /etc/exim4/email-addresses, and it got > overwritten. Then I understand now what is going on here. This information was not too clear in the original report. > > If yes, would it fix the issue to manually declare > > /etc/exim4/email-addresses as a conffile? > > Manually? How's that? by putting it into exim4-config.conffiles? > The way I see it, putting new files into /etc/ and not marking them as > conffiles is a bad idea. Definetely. > The package should mark all of its files in /etc as conffiles, and > prevent these kinds of situations from happening. (Had it been a > conffile, dpkg would have noticed, and it would have prompted me to > check it out.) Absolutely. However, we used to rely on debhelper doing so automatically, but it does not seem to do this for symlinks. Which caused the situation here (#421346). But, manually putting /etc/exim4/email-addresses into debian/exim4-config.conffiles doesn't help as well as the resulting package does not install (#421344). > I believe there's a Lintian warning to this effect... an error, indeed, > http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tfile-in-etc-not-marked-as-conffile.html > Yet, it didn't seem to catch it with exim4-config. Perhaps Lintian was > doing a '-f' test where '-e' would have been more appropriate. > You may want to file a bug on it :) #421345. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 3221 2323190 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
