[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#452907: .fetchmailrc not permitted to be a symlink

[Roger Leigh]

Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.8-10
Severity: normal

% fetchmail
File /home/rleigh/.fetchmailrc must be a regular file.

% pwd
/home/rleigh

% ls -l /home/rleigh/.fetchmailrc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 rleigh rleigh 15 2007-11-25 17:14 /home/rleigh/.fetchmailrc -> etc/fetchmailrc

% ls -l /home/rleigh/etc/fetchmailrc
-rw------- 1 rleigh rleigh 1057 2005-05-29 13:12 /home/rleigh/etc/fetchmailrc

I keep all my "dotfiles" in /home/rleigh/etc under revision control
(git) to allow synchronisation between different systems.  There's
no reason why a symlink shouldn't be allowed here (though
pipe/device/socket devices etc. are legitimately not useful).


If this could be fixed and/or forwarded upstream if appropriate, that
would be super.


Thanks,
Roger

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii  adduser               3.105              add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils           2.28               Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                 2.7-1              GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2            1.40.2-1           common error description library
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8           0.9.8g-3           SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base              3.1-24             Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

Versions of packages fetchmail recommends:
ii  ca-certificates               20070303   Common CA Certificates PEM files

-- no debconf information