Bug#854896: exim4: Dpkg fails to upgrade exim4 on debian sid.

Marc Haber mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de
Sun Feb 12 15:58:37 UTC 2017


On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 03:03:12PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> On 2017-02-12 Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages at zugschlus.de> wrote:
> > Why are the exim packages still using /var/run in the first place? I
> > think this should be changed after the stretch release.
> [...]
> 
> Let's fix this now, when we are already touching the init script.

That might make it harder to get updates into stretch during the
freeze. Changing the pid file location is a rather invasive,
error-prone change.

That being said, go ahead if you want to ;-)

Greetings
Marc

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