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Re: default MTA



On Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:49:59 -0400, Chris Knadle
<Chris.Knadle@coredump.us> wrote:
>On Friday, June 14, 2013 02:31:45, Marc Haber wrote:
>> On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:42:15 -0400, Chris Knadle
>> <Chris.Knadle@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.

And if you choose "Y", .dpkg-old config files are left. That's basic
dpkg functionality, and it has always been the case that files that
don't match the [-a-z0-9] rule are ignored. .dpkg-foo files have a
period and get ignored. See run-parts(8)

Grüße
Marc
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