[pkg-fetchmail-maint] Bug#639807: fetchmail: message "Server certificate:" should be written to stdout

[Henry Jensen]

Package: fetchmail
Version: 6.3.18-2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch

When using fetchmail in verbose SSL mode, fetchmail writes the message "Server certificate:" to stderr. 
Since this message is not an error (an it is not consistent with the ususal behaviour of fetchmail) it 
should be written to stdout instead. 

Since I run fetchmail crom a cronjob this behaviour becomes particular annoying, because cron is 
sending the output of stderr every time fetchmail runs.

Patch:

diff -urN fetchmail-6.3.18.orig//socket.c fetchmail-6.3.18//socket.c
--- fetchmail-6.3.18.orig//socket.c     2010-10-09 10:26:22.000000000 +0200
+++ fetchmail-6.3.18//socket.c  2011-08-30 14:15:50.000000000 +0200
@@ -618,7 +618,7 @@

        if (outlevel >= O_VERBOSE) {
                if (depth == 0 && SSLverbose)
-                       report(stderr, GT_("Server certificate:\n"));
+                       report(stdout, GT_("Server certificate:\n"));
                else {
                        if (_firstrun) {
                                _firstrun = 0;


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
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+nmu2           add and remove users and groups
ii  debianutils         3.4                  Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6               2.11.2-10            Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcomerr2          1.41.12-4stable1     common error description library
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2    1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
ii  libkrb5-3           1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8         0.9.8o-4squeeze1     SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base            3.2-23.2squeeze1     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

Versions of packages fetchmail recommends:
ii  ca-certificates            20090814+nmu2 Common CA certificates

Versions of packages fetchmail suggests:
ii  exim4-daemon-heavy [mail 4.72-6+squeeze2 Exim MTA (v4) daemon with extended
pn  fetchmailconf            <none>          (no description available)
pn  resolvconf               <none>          (no description available)

-- no debconf information