Bug#1108949: utrans-rc: installing utrans-rc generates a /etc/init.d/exim4, which conflicts with the file shipped by exim4-base

[Paul Gevers]

Hi,

Happened to come across this bug.

On Sat, 12 Jul 2025 15:38:41 +0100 Mark Hindley <m...@hindley.org.uk> wrote:

+       # Remove any timestamp to force regeneration of all scripts.
+       rm -f /var/tmp/${DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE}.stamp

Paul

This is a very predictable path. Normally those have security concerns as anybody on the system can create this file between here and where it's used. Were those considered? (I haven't checked the code, I only read the patch here).

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