Re: Bug#224828: Split config file is worrying...

[Cameron Patrick <cameron@patrick.wattle.id.au>]

Andreas Metzler wrote:

| There'd be medium debconf question asking whether update-exim4.conf
| should use the template file or the conf.d hierarchy to generate
| config.autogenerated. The question would default to yes for fresh
| installations and no for upgrades.

Could you avoid the debconf question and use a similar mechanism to what
the current XFree packages do: generate the file from conf.d, unless its
md5sum has changed from the generated version.  That way you don't need
to have a debconf question, and when someone edits their exim4.conf
file, exim Does The Right Thing and doesn't scribble all over it.

Cameron.

(Who doesn't like debconf being used when not completely necessary.)