Bug#420578: exim4-config killed my email-addresses file

Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.63-17
Severity: grave

Hi,

After the upgrade to etch, I found myself generating mails with the wrong
headers. When I went to look why, I saw:

% ls -l /etc/exim4/email-addresses*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2007-04-15 16:55 /etc/exim4/email-addresses -> ../email-addresses
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 208 2006-09-21 12:13 /etc/exim4/email-addresses~
% ls -l /etc/email-addresses
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 312 2003-12-19 16:41 /etc/email-addresses

The file with a tilde was the remnant of at least one edit.
And those edits are now gone.

% dpkg -s exim4-config | grep email-ad
/etc/email-addresses 6bea09fbb18e4676012105fa5fc726c6
% dpkg -L exim4-config | grep exim4/email-addresses
/etc/exim4/email-addresses

The package is owning the file (symlink) in /etc/exim4, but is not declaring
it a conffile.

On sarge, exim4-config did not include /etc/exim4/email-addresses in the
package, and there was no bug.

This is blatant data loss. (

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Hi Josip,

sorry about your loss.

On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 12:01:05PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote:
> After the upgrade to etch, I found myself generating mails with the wrong
> headers.

Which package did you upgrade from?

> When I went to look why, I saw:
>
> % ls -l /etc/exim4/email-addresses*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 2007-04-15 16:55 /etc/exim4/email-addresses -> ../email-addresses
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 208 2006-09-21 12:13 /etc/exim4/email-addresses~
> % ls -l /etc/email-addresses
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 312 2003-12-19 16:41 /etc/email-addresses
>
> The file with a tilde was the remnant of at least one edit.
> And those edits are now gone.

Very strange.

> % dpkg -s exim4-config | grep email-ad
> /etc/email-addresses 6bea09fbb18e4676012105fa5fc726c6
> % dpkg -L exim4-config | grep exim4/email-addresses
> /etc/exim4/email-addresses
>
> The package is owning the file (symlink) in /etc/exim4, but is not declaring
> it a conffile.
>
> On sarge, exim4-config did not include /etc/exim4/email-addresses in the
> package, and there was no bug.

exim4-config on sarge contains /etc/email-addresses as a conffile, and
does not contain /etc/exim4/email-addresses.

exim4-config on etch contains /etc/email-addresses as a conffile, and
contains /etc/exim4/email-addresses.

Do I see correctly that you had a local file
/etc/exim4/email-addresses which was overwritten during the upgrade?
If yes, would it fix the issue to manually declare
/etc/exim4/email-addresses as a conffile?

Greetings
Marc

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