Re: exim 4 packages uploaded to experimental

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <jsogo@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:19:52PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> David B Harris <david@eelf.ddts.net> wrote:
[...]
>> > On upgrade, from the "old" exim, /etc/inetd.conf remains unchanged,
>> > resulting in some nasty behaviour (ie: with the default install, no mail
>> > coming in remotely is deliverable).
 
>> > Dunno if this is known, or what, but there you go :)
 
>> No, it was not known and should/could not happen because Exim invokes
>> "update-inetd --comment-chars \#disabled\# --disable smtp"
>> on uninstall.

>  I have just installed exim4-daemon-heavy, upgrading from current
>  exim package in unstable, and I have had the same problem.
[...]

It is a bug introduced in exim 3.36-1:

-                update-inetd --comment-chars \#disabled\# --disable smtp
+                if [ -x /usr/sbin/updated-inetd ]; then
+                   update-inetd --comment-chars \#disabled\# --disable smtp
+               fi
             cu andreas