[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#623962: upgrade of fetchmail changes shell of fetchmail in /etc/passwd

[J G Miller]

Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.19-1
Severity: normal

I installed the falselogin package, and changed the shell of fetchmail,
amongst other users, in /etc/passwd to /usr/bin/falselogin.

On just now upgrading fetchmail, the passwd file has been altered
and the shell of fetchmail changed to /bin/false.

Should the upgrade of fetchmail be changing the login shell
without even asking?

Thank you for your consideration of this matter.

J G Miller


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.38-2-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/dash

Versions of packages fetchmail depends on:
ii  adduser                    3.112+nmu2    add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils                3.4.4         Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                      2.11.2-11     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcomerr2                 1.41.12-2     common error description library
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2           1.9+dfsg-1+b1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libkrb5-3                  1.9+dfsg-1+b1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libssl1.0.0                1.0.0d-2      SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                   3.2-27        Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages fetchmail recommends:
ii  ca-certificates            20090814+nmu3 Common CA certificates

Versions of packages fetchmail suggests:
ii  exim4-daemon-heavy [mail-tran 4.75-1     Exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended
pn  fetchmailconf                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  resolvconf                    <none>     (no description available)

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/default/fetchmail changed [not included]
/etc/init.d/fetchmail changed [not included]
/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/fetchmail [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.server/fetchmail'
/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.workstation/fetchmail [Errno 13] Permission denied: u'/etc/logcheck/ignore.d.workstation/fetchmail'

-- no debconf information