Bug#500691: exim4-config: debconf-autogenerated hostname breaks with some locales

[Andreas Metzler]

tags 500691 confirmed
severity 500691 serious
thanks
On 2008-09-30 Meelis Roos <mroos at linux.ee> wrote:
> Package: exim4-config
> Version: 4.63-17
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch

> /usr/sbin/update-exim4.conf contains a-zA-Z style character class
> matching code that is long known to not work with some locales that have
> different alphabet order (like Estonian - 'z' after 's' and before 't').
> So it strips out any letters from the end of the alphabet and so the
> hostname 'foo.cyber.ee' becomes 'foo.c' and mail breaks since it's a
> nonexistant domain.

> Either use LANG=C explicitly or use POSIX character classes like this
> (the patch is tested to fix it for me):
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Thanks for the report. Confirmed. I am raising the severity of the bug
since it substantially breaks the package.

cu andreas
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