On Friday, June 14, 2013 02:31:45, Marc Haber wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:42:15 -0400, Chris Knadle > > <chris.kna...@coredump.us> wrote: > >So right now I think that I probably just didn't know that this had been > >fixed, because I haven't been using the "split file" configuration for > >along time. I clearly remember having _upgrade_ problems in 2003 with > >Exim on Debian Testing, but I might be confusing the root cause of those > >problems at that time; there are occasional required configuration > >changes, and that's another possible cause.
I should explain the above a bit further; when using the "split file" configuration and choosing "N" to certain config file updates, that leaves behind several .dpkg-dist config files. If the upgrade goes badly because of required configuration changes, the first thing that catches one's eye are the .dpkg-dist files, making it _seem_ as though they could have been the root cause, even if they're not. ;-) > In 2003 the exim4 packages were in a kind of steady flux, everything > was new back than. The old exim 3 packages worked totally different. I > fully understand that exim4 2003 might have had serious and bad bugs, > but I think that most of them have been ironed out by now. Yes I ran Exim3 for a while also, so I know what you mean. With Exim4 I think it was the "in flux" part that got me at the time concerning upgrades, which was exaserbated by my running Testing on the server. > That doesn't mean that I am not going to break exim during the jessie > release cycle, but Andreas is there to fix it ;-) If that happens, it's fixable. ;-) -- Chris -- Chris Knadle chris.kna...@coredump.us GPG Key: 4096R/0x1E759A726A9FDD74 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201306142149.59458.chris.kna...@coredump.us