[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#565613: exim4: syntax error: unknown group 'Debian-exim' in statoverride file

[Sascha Silbe]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 06:45:23PM +0000, Roger Leigh wrote:

> schroot can not (does not) support running dæmons such as exim.
The problem was not running it, but removing it (because it used 
dpkg-statoverride with a "custom" group). It was installed via some 
dependency chain (about any non-trivial installation pulls in an MTA and 
exim4 is the default, for better or worse).

> We could add logic to compare the two and merge the differences
> rather than using the existing approach of replacing the whole lot.
That would be the golden way of course. In practice I think it would 
suffice to have schroot detect that the files inside the chroot have 
been changed (by comparing with a stored checksum) and refuse to 
overwrite them (with an appropriate warning printed).

At the very least the defaults should be commented out with a warning 
what might break.

CU Sascha

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