Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

[Henning Makholm <henning@makholm.net>]

Scripsit John Hasler <jhasler@debian.org>
> Henning Makholm writes:

>> I maintain one package whose upstream author apparently thought that
>> $PATH would be a good place to look for a system-wide configuration
>> file. I changed that to look in /etc instead, which makes the
>> configuration mechanism in Debian substantially different from
>> upstream's.

> I have made similar changes, but I also patched the documentation.  Many
> DDs do not do so, confusing users.

I agree that documentation has to be changed accordingly.  Thought it
was too obvious to mention. :-)

-- 
Henning Makholm                                   "No one seems to know what
                                       distinguishes a bell from a whistle."