[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#348855: fetchmail: postinst fails (wrong call to "usermod")

[Gilles]

Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.1-4
Severity: normal

Hi.

The error:

 Setting up fetchmail (6.3.1-4) ...
 usermod: invalid option -- -
 Usage: usermod  [-u uid [-o]] [-g group] [[-G group,...] [-a]]
                 [-d home [-m]] [-s shell] [-c comment] [-l new_name]
                 [-f inactive] [-e expire] [-p passwd] [-L|-U] name
 dpkg: error processing fetchmail (--configure):
  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  fetchmail
 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

The postinst script contains the line:

  usermod --home /var/lib/fetchmail fetchmail

which, I think, should have been:

  usermod -d /var/lib/fetchmail fetchmail


Regards,
Gilles

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14-vs2.1.0-rc5+g3
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

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                         2.3.5-7    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

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