fetchmail upgrade problem

[Hall Stevenson <hallstevenson@mindspring.com>]

When trying to upgrade fetchmail, it complains that
/etc/init.d/fetchmail 'does not exist'. Why should it ?? I don't want
fetchmail started at bootup...

Here's the main part of the error message:

Preparing to replace fetchmail 5.8.16-1 (using
.../fetchmail_5.8.17-1_i386.deb) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/fetchmail.prerm: /etc/init.d/fetchmail: No such file
or directory
Unpacking replacement fetchmail ...
Setting up fetchmail (5.8.17-1) ...
update-rc.d: /etc/init.d/fetchmail: file does not exist
dpkg: error processing fetchmail (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 fetchmail
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


Any help ?? Thanks in advance.

Hall