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Bug#519111: marked as done (release-notes: exim4-upgrade fails when choosing "N")

Your message dated Sat, 13 Oct 2012 16:09:35 +0100
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has caused the Debian Bug report #519111,
regarding release-notes: exim4-upgrade fails when choosing "N"
to be marked as done.

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Package: release-notes
Severity: normal



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

During dist-upgrade the user is asked several times if they wish to 
install new config-files provided by the maintainer of the packet, keep 
their old config files, see both files to compare. The default answer 
is "N" - i.e. keep the old config files, and this is usually save. But 
users run into troubles, when they do not install the new config-files 
for Exim4 4.69. They are left with a broken exim4 they cannot even 
uninstall easyly. 

see eg: 
http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-exim4-users/2009-March/001587.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/exim-users@exim.org/msg25245.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-german/2009/02/msg01318.html

So I suggest that some warning be included into the Release notes, 
that exim4-users should choose the new config-files unless they really 
know what they are doing. 

Best regards,
jutta

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Thanks for reporting! since lenny is now obsolete this bug will now be closed

We are sorry it could not make it to lenny :(

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