Re: [exim] converting from debian package to source

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Συντάκτης: Heiko Schlittermann
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Προς: exim-users
Αντικείμενο: Re: [exim] converting from debian package to source
Hi Julian,

Julian Bradfield via Exim-users <exim-users@???> (Sa 08 Jan 2022 15:07:01 CET):
> My mail servers run, and have run for decades, on Debian, and I've
> always used the Debian package for exim4, though I don't use debconf
> for my own additions, but just edit the conf.template file as if it
> were a .conf file.


For several reasons I was unhappy with the Exim packages Debian ships.
So I started my own attempts to package Exim as close as possible to the
original Exim and as close as possible to that what a seasoned Debian
Admin would expect.

https://gitea.schlittermann.de/heiko/exim4-exim.org/src/branch/debian/bullseye

But, be ware, it is in a "works-for-me" status. I use the built packages
on several hosts of my own and my customers infrastructure.

> I wonder if anybody on this list has done such a conversion recently,
> and would have time to share the chief gotchas they encountered.


Currently the worst thing is the libopendmarc issue (Debian ships a
version which is not compatible with the latest Exim versions. So I put
the version Exim needs as a patch into the package and it gets installed
in and linked from /usr/lib/exim4/libopendmarc or so.)

    Best regards from Dresden/Germany
    Viele Grüße aus Dresden
    Heiko Schlittermann
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