[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#587367: fetchmail: Installation error from update-rc.d

[Steve Cotton]

Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.17-2
Severity: serious
Justification: breaks unrelated software (blocks dpkg's configure stage)

/var/lib/dpkg/info/fetchmail.postinst misses the second "." in its
call to update-rc.d:

dpkg: error processing fetchmail (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 fetchmail
Press return to continue.

Setting up fetchmail (6.3.17-2) ...
update-rc.d: error: start|stop arguments not terminated by "."
usage: update-rc.d [-n] [-f] <basename> remove
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> defaults [NN | SS KK]
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> start|stop NN runlvl [runlvl] [...] .
       update-rc.d [-n] <basename> disable|enable [S|2|3|4|5]
                -n: not really
                -f: force


I had the packages that provide update-rc.d on hold; but have now updated them
and update-rc.d still considers this a fatal error.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30.5 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
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                     3.112        add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils                 3.2.3        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                       2.11.2-2     Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcomerr2                  1.41.12-2    common error description library
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2            1.8.1+dfsg-5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libk5crypto3                1.8.1+dfsg-5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - C
ii  libkrb5-3                   1.8.1+dfsg-5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                 0.9.8o-1     SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                    3.2-23.1     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of update-rc.d related packages:
ii  insserv                     1.14.0-2
ii  sysv-rc                     2.88dsf-9
ii  sysvinit                    2.88dsf-9

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

Versions of packages fetchmail suggests:
ii  exim4-daemon-light [mail-tran 4.72-1     lightweight Exim MTA (v4) daemon
pn  fetchmailconf                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  resolvconf                    <none>     (no description available)

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