[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#569794: fetchmail: please add possibility to keep old "sleeping/awakened" logging behaviour

[Andreas Hoenen]

Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.13-2
Severity: wishlist

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I miss the old syslog behaviour with the "sleeping / awakened at" messages.  The
only possibility to regain these messages is to add option --verbose, but this
logs too much into syslog (for me about 50 lines instead of the expected 2).

I know that this behaviour change is a intended one [1]/[2], and I don't care
about the change of the *default* behaviour, but I would really love a
possibility to keep the old behaviour that I'm used to and that I consider
reasonable.  (And the comment in [3] <<besides, the "correct" behavior is
disputed by fetchmail users>> indicates that I might be not alone.)

BTW, I would prefer a configuration possibility in fetchmailrc (for setting
- --verbose I had to edit /etc/default/fetchmail).

[1] http://gitorious.org/fetchmail/fetchmail/commit/88dbe5e39105112e4a666d1a182b7e0e5236102e
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/282259
[3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=282259#29

Thanks, Andreas Hoenen

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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                3.112             add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils            3.2.2             Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                  2.10.2-2          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomerr2             1.41.9-1          common error description library
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.8+dfsg~alpha1-5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libk5crypto3           1.8+dfsg~alpha1-5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - C
ii  libkrb5-3              1.8+dfsg~alpha1-5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8            0.9.8k-8          SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base               3.2-23            Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages fetchmail recommends:
ii  ca-certificates               20090814   Common CA certificates

Versions of packages fetchmail suggests:
pn  fetchmailconf                 <none>     (no description available)
ii  masqmail [mail-transport-agen 0.2.21-7.1 mail transport agent for intermitt
pn  resolvconf                    <none>     (no description available)

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