[Adduser-devel] Bug#486585: adduser/homedir-permission isn't set the first time running debconf

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 01:28:25AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
> Hi I'm not totally sure about this, but I think the following happened
> several times for me:
> 
> 1. I've installed plain etch.
> 2. dist-upgraded to sid
> 3. debconf asked me for adduser whether I want system wide readable
> home-dirs, and I choose no
> 4. I do a dpkg-reconfigure adduser,... yes is selected
> 5. When I select no now, subsequent invokations of dpkg-reconfigure show
> the correct value.
> 
> Is this possible?! ;)

No idea. Is it still reproducible in current versions of Debian?

Greetings
Marc

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