Comment 15 for bug 164837

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Ante Karamatić (ivoks) wrote : Re: [Bug 164837] Re: Dovecot SASL for postfix

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:41:06 -0000
Mathias Gug <email address hidden> wrote:

> postinst scripts in tasksel are considered as maintainer scripts. So
> they cannot modify a configuration file. Patching dovecot.conf from the
> task postinstall script is forbidden.

Em... I taught we agreed that we will do this trough tasksel.

/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf is not a conffile
(cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/dovecot-common.conffiles) and we already alter
it trough maintainer scripts (dovecot-pop3d.postinst and
dovecot-imapd.postinst).