On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 09:20:36AM +0000, Ben Raven wrote:
root@ben-test-2:/# grep -nPR /etc/exim4 -e "^\t "
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template:2120: }\
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template:2121: {\\N[\\^]\\N}\
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template:2122: {^^}\
/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template:2123: }
/etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples:244: }\
/etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples:245:
{\\N[\\^]\\N}\
/etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples:246: {^^}\
/etc/exim4/conf.d/auth/30_exim4-config_examples:247: }
These are all dpkg-conffiles. Doing those changes for cosmetic reasons
will trigger conffile change prompts on thousands of systems. I'd
recommend not doing this until those files need changes for non-cosmetic
reasons, where it is appropriate to piggyback cosmetics on them as well.
I'm not seeing these files in the exim upstream source code (
https://github.com/Exim/exim), but they are in the Debian exim4 source code
(https://salsa.debian.org/exim-team/exim4), which also contains many more
lines beginning with a tab followed by spaces. Apologies if this isn't the
right place to be reporting this; if so, where would be?
The exim upstream sources contain an src/configure.default. I think most
of our exim4.conf.template is generated from patching this file.
Greetings
Marc
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