Bug#816790: exim4-config: Invalid new configfile /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp, not installing

[Christian Lauinger]

Package: exim4-config
Version: 4.86.2-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

*** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

   * What led up to the situation?
upgrade of exim4-config
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
run aptitude - upgrade
   * What was the outcome of this action?
exim4-config (4.86.2-1) wird eingerichtet ...
2016-03-05 11:51:45 Exim configuration error in line 189 of
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp:
  main option "add_environment" unknown
Invalid new configfile /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp, not installing
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp to /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten des Paketes exim4-config (--configure):
 Unterprozess installiertes post-installation-Skript gab den Fehlerwert 1
zurück
Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
 exim4-config
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
christian at debian:/var/lib/exim4$ sudo mcedit
/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated.tmp
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
package installed correctly

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-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.86 #3 built 28-Nov-2015 17:45:31
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge, 1995 - 2015
(c) The Exim Maintainers and contributors in ACKNOWLEDGMENTS file, 2007 - 2015
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 5.3.28: (September  9, 2013)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages DKIM DNSSEC PRDR OCSP
Lookups (built-in): lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmjz dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
#
# Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes
# to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local
# changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess
# around with multiple versions of the file.
#
# update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to generate
# exim configuration macros for the configuration file.
#
# Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the
# Debconf configuration, but not all of them.
#
# This is a Debian specific file

dc_eximconfig_configtype='satellite'
dc_other_hostnames=''
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1 ; ::1'
dc_readhost='lauinger-clan.de'
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost='lise.lauinger-clan.local'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname='true'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
mailname:debian.lauinger-clan.local

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages exim4-config depends on:
ii  adduser                3.113+nmu3
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]  1.5.58

exim4-config recommends no packages.

exim4-config suggests no packages.

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/exim4/passwd.client [Errno 13] Keine Berechtigung: u'/etc/exim4/passwd.client'

-- debconf-show failed