Package: base-passwd
Followup-For: Bug #865401
(I'm not the maintainer, but I do help out with debconf questions on
debian-localization-english and I happened to notice this report.)
> In English (unlike e.g. in French) orthography, question marks (and
> exclamation marks) are typed adjacent to the preceding word, with no
> space between.
>
> root# debconf-get-selections | grep ' ?'
> # Do you want to add the group ?
> # Do you want to move the user ?
> # Do you want to change the GID of user ?
> # Do you want to remove the group ?
> # Do you want to change the UID of user ?
> # Do you want to remove the user ?
> # Do you want to change the GID of group ?
> # Do you want to change the shell of user ?
> # Do you want to change the GECOS of user ?
> # Do you want to move the group ?
> # Do you want to change the home directory of user ?
> # Do you want to add the user ?
These (and the ones for ucf) all appear to be false positives. The
data that debconf-get-selections is reading comes from
/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.templates, and you'll see if you do a
"grep 'Description:.*\?' /var/lib/dpkg/info/base-passwd.templates"
that it's actually:
Description: Do you want to move the user ${name}?
Description: Do you want to move the group ${name}?
Description: Do you want to add the user ${name}?
Description: Do you want to add the group ${name}?
Description: Do you want to remove the user ${name}?
Description: Do you want to remove the group ${name}?
Description: Do you want to change the UID of user ${name}?
Description: Do you want to change the GID of user ${name}?
Description: Do you want to change the GECOS of user ${name}?
Description: Do you want to change the home directory of user ${name}?
Description: Do you want to change the shell of user ${name}?
Description: Do you want to change the GID of group ${name}?
So what you've found is apprently a limitation in
debconf-get-selections's ability to interrogate the debconf database
via Debconf::Question.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
