Bug#476987: exim4-daemon-light: the problem is in the init scripts quoting

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Package: exim4-daemon-light
Version: 4.69-2+b1
Followup-For: Bug #476987


installation fails:
Setting up exim4-daemon-light (4.69-2+b1) ...
Starting MTA:exim: incompatible command-line options or arguments
invoke-rc.d: initscript exim4, action "start" failed.

when i remove the quoting from the init script like this
  case ${QUEUERUNNER} in
    combined)
      start_daemon -p "$PIDFILE" \
        $DAEMON -bd -q${QFLAGS}${QUEUEINTERVAL} ${COMMONOPTIONS} ${QUEUERUNNEROPTIONS} ${SMTPLISTENEROPTIONS}
      log_progress_msg "exim4"
exim starts.

-- Package-specific info:
Exim version 4.69 #1 built 12-Apr-2008 09:26:11
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2006
Berkeley DB: Berkeley DB 4.6.21: (September 27, 2007)
Support for: crypteq iconv() IPv6 GnuTLS move_frozen_messages
Lookups: lsearch wildlsearch nwildlsearch iplsearch cdb dbm dbmnz dnsdb dsearch nis nis0 passwd
Authenticators: cram_md5 plaintext
Routers: accept dnslookup ipliteral manualroute queryprogram redirect
Transports: appendfile/maildir/mailstore autoreply lmtp pipe smtp
Fixed never_users: 0
Size of off_t: 8
Configuration file is /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated
# /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf
#
# Edit this file and /etc/mailname by hand and execute update-exim4.conf
# yourself or use 'dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config'
#
# Please note that this is _not_ a dpkg-conffile and that automatic changes
# to this file might happen. The code handling this will honor your local
# changes, so this is usually fine, but will break local schemes that mess
# around with multiple versions of the file.
#
# update-exim4.conf uses this file to determine variable values to generate
# exim configuration macros for the configuration file.
#
# Most settings found in here do have corresponding questions in the
# Debconf configuration, but not all of them.
#
# This is a Debian specific file

dc_eximconfig_configtype='satellite'
dc_other_hostnames='tanj.dus2.cns.mcbone.net'
dc_local_interfaces='127.0.0.1'
dc_readhost='tanj.dus2.cns.mcbone.net'
dc_relay_domains=''
dc_minimaldns='false'
dc_relay_nets=''
dc_smarthost='mx.freenet.de'
CFILEMODE='644'
dc_use_split_config='false'
dc_hide_mailname='true'
dc_mailname_in_oh='true'
dc_localdelivery='mail_spool'
mailname:debian.mk.freenet-rz.de

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.3 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages exim4-daemon-light depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.21     Debian configuration management sy
ii  exim4-base                    4.69-2+b1  support files for all Exim MTA (v4
ii  libc6                         2.7-10     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdb4.6                      4.6.21-7   Berkeley v4.6 Database Libraries [
ii  libgnutls26                   2.2.2-1    the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libpcre3                      7.6-2      Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi

exim4-daemon-light recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  exim4-daemon-light/drec: