Package: fetchmail Version: 6.3.8-10 Severity: normal % fetchmail File /home/rleigh/.fetchmailrc must be a regular file.
% pwd /home/rleigh % ls -l /home/rleigh/.fetchmailrc lrwxrwxrwx 1 rleigh rleigh 15 2007-11-25 17:14 /home/rleigh/.fetchmailrc -> etc/fetchmailrc % ls -l /home/rleigh/etc/fetchmailrc -rw------- 1 rleigh rleigh 1057 2005-05-29 13:12 /home/rleigh/etc/fetchmailrc I keep all my "dotfiles" in /home/rleigh/etc under revision control (git) to allow synchronisation between different systems. There's no reason why a symlink shouldn't be allowed here (though pipe/device/socket devices etc. are legitimately not useful). If this could be fixed and/or forwarded upstream if appropriate, that would be super. Thanks, Roger -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: powerpc (ppc) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-powerpc 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 3.105 add and remove users and groups ii debianutils 2.28 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii libc6 2.7-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomerr2 1.40.2-1 common error description library ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-3 SSL shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip Versions of packages fetchmail recommends: ii ca-certificates 20070303 Common CA Certificates PEM files -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
