Bug#374981: [Adduser-devel] Bug#374981: adduser: symlink bug true for all symlinks, not just dead ones

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Stephen Gran said:
> This one time, at band camp, jeff said:
> > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 01:12:22PM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote:
> > > 
> > > You are saying any dead symlink, or any symlink at all?
> > 
> > Any symlink at all.
> > 
> > celeste:/etc/skel# ls -al
> > total 16
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4096 2006-10-04 04:22 .
> > drwxr-xr-x  79 root root 4096 2006-10-03 09:17 ..
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root root  567 2004-12-19 08:53 .bash_profile
> > -rw-r--r--   1 root root 1834 2004-12-19 08:53 .bashrc
> > lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    4 2006-10-04 04:23 var -> /var

steve at charon:~$ sudo adduser test
Adding user `test'...
Adding new group `test' (1001).
Adding new user `test' (1001) with group `test'.
Creating home directory `/home/test'.
Copying files from `/etc/skel'
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully
Changing the user information for test
Enter the new value, or press ENTER for the default
        Full Name []:
        Room Number []:
        Work Phone []:
        Home Phone []:
        Other []:
Is the information correct? [y/N] y
steve at charon:~$ ll ~test
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 test test 4 2006-10-05 01:12 var -> /var
steve at charon:~$ dpkg -l adduser
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name             Version            Description
+++-================-==================-=======================================
ii  adduser          3.63               Add and remove users and groups

I just don't see the bug yet.
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