On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 05:57:30PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 04:50:20PM +0000, James Le Cuirot wrote: > > It only successfully configures after deleting > > /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf. Presumably the blank entries as seen > > below are throwing the script off. I suggest making the script more > > resilient and possibly adding a dependency on util-linux. > > util-linux is Essential: yes, and packages SHOULD not declare > dependencies on Essential packages unless they need a certain version > (Policy 3.5).
That is reasonable and apologies for not being familiar with Debian packaging policies. I come from Gentoo and we have a similar concept. Nevertheless, I feel that the script should be able to recover from this situation. There may be other reasons why these fields end up blank. Regards, James
