Re: [exim] More integer annoyances in 4.65

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Author: Mike Cardwell
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] More integer annoyances in 4.65
* on the Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:20:08AM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:

>> Actually, what I was hoping for is that all this nonsense of checking
>> for valid integers in comparisons be removed, or at least allow a null
>> value to be used. I can't recall such an incompatible change in Exim
>> since the release of Exim 4.
> My apologies. It was not meant to be such an incompatible change! The
> ChangeLog entry for the change that did this is:


[snip explanation + patch]

> Do people think it is reasonable to re-institute this special behaviour?
> If so, I will do so and document it for the next release.


I vote for doing this yes. I'm another of those people with a setup that
will break on upgrade due to this change at the moment.

Mike