Bug#268083: exim4: [info] File inclusion section does not explain default directory

[Andreas Metzler]

tags 268083 fixed-upstream
# fixed in snapshot
thanks
On 2006-02-12 Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de> wrote:
[...]
> On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 01:11:30AM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote:
>> Things that should be cleared:
>> 
>> 	- What directory is assumed with this statement? I'd have
>> 	  expected the current directory the file is being included
>> 	  from (e.g inside transport/ dir, it would look into that dir)

> Exim takes relative paths relative to whatever current directory exim
> was invoked in. This is bad, and I have forwarded this issue upstream.
> See http://www.exim.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75
[...]

This is going to be fixed in 4.61, exim-snapshot-ChangeLog.bz2
contains this:

PH/38 Panic-die if .include specifies a non-absolute path.

      cu andreas
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