[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#348302: service does not start, START_DAEMON is missing

[Eduard Bloch]

Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.1-2
Severity: normal

Hello,

after upgrading fetchmail to the recent version, it does no longer
start and tells me to "Edit /etc/default/fetchmailrc". I did, but could
not find the problem cause. I have changed SERVICE= to true, it still
did not work. Now I looked at the init script and see that it expected
START_DAEMON=yes somewhere... but WTF is going on? IIRC I have choosen
to overwrite the file when dpkg has asked me but that cannot explain the
problem.

Eduard.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.2
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.80       Add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils                   2.15.2     Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  gettext                       0.14.5-2   GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-11   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8a-5   SSL shared libraries

Versions of packages fetchmail recommends:
ii  ca-certificates               20050804   Common CA Certificates PEM files