Bug#400292: exim4-config: Should remove /etc/mailname if created automatically

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2006-11-25 Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs at computer.org> wrote:
> Package: exim4-config
> Version: 4.63-10
> Priority: wishlist

> Exim4-config generates /etc/mailname automatically on postinst, based on the
> information provided by the user. It fails, however, to remove this
> configuration file if the package is purged from the system.

That is because /etc/mailname is a shared configuration file. Multiple
installed programs are using it, removing just *one* of them (exim)
must not break the others.

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> IMHO, exim4-config should remove /etc/mailname if it can ascertain (through
> it's checksum) that *he* (and not the admin) created the file. That would
> make it possible to fix the above situation by purging the package and
> reinstalling.

I do not think exim should ever remove this file. The actual breakage
you encontered needs to be fixed in a different way.
cu and- I would suggest closing this bug on the basis of
        policy 11.6 -reas