[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#492745: 'fetchmail debug-run' is broken

[Francois Gouget]

Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.9~rc2-3
Severity: normal


'/etc/init.d/fetchmail debug-run' still uses su to try to run fetchmail.
However the fetchmail account now has '/bin/false' as its shell so the
su command does not do anything and thus neither does debug-run.

In the Debian changelog I see that a similar issue was encountered with
fetchmail start:

   fetchmail (6.3.9~rc2-2)
   * Fix broken init script by dropping usage of su and use
     -c by start-stop-daemon instead to switch to the fetchmail
     user (Closes: #487943).

I suspect something similar needs to be done for debug-run but I'm
unsure of the details...


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25.3fg1 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii  adduser               3.108              add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils           2.30               Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                 2.7-10             GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2            1.41.0-3           common error description library
ii  libkrb53              1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-3 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8           0.9.8g-10.1        SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base              3.2-12             Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages fetchmail recommends:
ii  ca-certificates               20080617   Common CA certificates

Versions of packages fetchmail suggests:
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.69-5+b1  lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
pn  fetchmailconf                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  resolvconf                    <none>     (no description available)

-- no debconf information