Bug#393843: update-exim4.conf fails if user already included "<;"

[Marc Haber]

tags #393843 confirmed
thanks

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 06:15:18PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> Just glancing at the script (I haven't read it all or claim to
> understand it all) it looks like it just uses grep to prepend the "<;"
> if the string contains any ";" -- that's a bug.  If the user-specified
> value begins with "<", the script shouldn't prepend its own "<;".

Your diagnosis seems to be correct. I'm going to fix this, but not
before the version currently in sid has migrated to etch.

Using full exim list features in debconf answers has never been
officially supported.

Greetings
Marc

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