Debian Bug report logs - #1005942
adduser: spews error when ^Ding out of binary question, proceeds anyway

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Package: adduser; Maintainer for adduser is Debian Adduser Developers <[email protected]>; Source for adduser is src:adduser (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: наб <[email protected]>

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 15:54:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version adduser/3.118

Fix blocked by 1014444: need rollback mechanism in case of aborts

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On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 04:50:23PM +0100, наб wrote:
> Please consider the patch below
> (based on current Salsa, i.e. a7c40dcd86aefe6b4d6fa926a8101222dc1bad01),
> which falls through to the default answer (as already happens)

I'd rather have adduser abort and roll back  when the user has indicated
that they are not willing to interact with adduser any more.

I am not sure whether we should be asking those questions at all but
instead directly abort.

Greetings
Marc

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