Bug#990344: exim 4.94.2 update default configuration option breaks MTA

2021-06-29 Thread sawbona
Hello: Thank you very much for taking the time to write. On 29 Jun 2021 at 19:05, Marc Haber wrote: > The "exim installer" is called dpkg and is a core package ... Yes, I am quite aware of that. Which is *exactly* the reason I did not file a bug against dpkg. If anything, in the many years I

Bug#990344: exim 4.94.2 update default configuration option breaks MTA

2021-06-29 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 08:17:16AM -0300, sawb...@xsmail.com wrote: > It would make a lot more sense (and would have saved me a lot of > grief) if the exim 4.94.2 installer would have popped up something > like this: The "exim installer" is called dpkg and is a core package of Debian. You can

Bug#990344: exim 4.94.2 update default configuration option breaks MTA

2021-06-29 Thread sawbona
Hello: Thank you for taking the time to write. > ... exim packages do not change/edit the file, if it was changed > then manually. Right. The userland cannot change it, it's only through *manual* edition. Now I'm *sure* I didn't change anything. I had never seen the insides of an exim config

Bug#990344: exim 4.94.2 update default configuration option breaks MTA

2021-06-27 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2021-06-26 sawb...@xsmail.com wrote: > On 26 Jun 2021 at 15:12, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > I think that assumption is not correct. dpkg will (should) only ask > > about the confffile if it *was* locally changed, otherwise the files are > > overwritten without asking. > I see ... > The thing is

Bug#990344: exim 4.94.2 update default configuration option breaks MTA

2021-06-26 Thread sawbona
Hello: On 26 Jun 2021 at 15:12, Andreas Metzler wrote: > I think that assumption is not correct. dpkg will (should) only ask > about the confffile if it *was* locally changed, otherwise the files are > overwritten without asking. I see ... The thing is that I don't remember *ever* changing any

Bug#990344: exim 4.94.2 update default configuration option breaks MTA

2021-06-26 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2021-06-26 sawb...@xsmail.com wrote: > Hello: > Please excuse me, it happens that english is not my native language > so it is quite probable that I may not have expressed myself > correctly. > > Overwriting local customizations is not an option. > I was referring to whatever files are

Bug#990344: exim 4.94.2 update default configuration option breaks MTA

2021-06-26 Thread sawbona
Hello: Please excuse me, it happens that english is not my native language so it is quite probable that I may not have expressed myself correctly. > Overwriting local customizations is not an option. I was referring to whatever files are installed by *default* by the exim-config package. As

Bug#990344: exim 4.94.2 update default configuration option breaks MTA

2021-06-26 Thread sawbona
Package: exim4 Version: 4.94 Severity: grave Half way through the update to exim 4.94.2, the installer pops up a warning in the terminal informing that the configuration file being installed is different to the one in place and prompts to choose what to do: 1. keep the installed configuration