Joey Hess wrote: > Actually, Stack doesn't fail here, it only debugs a complaint. So > my patch does not lead to new failures.
Er, actually it does, because later operations can depend on that value having been written. For example, my changes broke running debconf-loadtemplate as nonroot. So, I don't know how to fix this fine mess we've gotten into. Obviously, it's easy to slap on a fix to File that will make things work in the default configuration, but as soon as someone modifies their debconf.conf, bugs like #577299 can begin to appear. (Or if they switch to using cdebconf, since I have no idea if it is at all compatable with debconf's behavior when run as nonroot.) -- see shy jo
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