Bug#1021239: opensmtpd: debconf answers during installation are not saved/used

[Yvan Masson]

Package: opensmtpd
X-Debbugs-Cc: y...@masson-informatique.fr
Version: 6.8.0p2-4+b2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

During installation of opensmtpd, debconf ask questions to the user, but:




Regards,
Yvan


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)

Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages opensmtpd depends on:
ii  adduser                    3.129
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]      1.5.79
ii  ed                         1.18-1
ii  init-system-helpers        1.65.2
ii  libc6                      2.35-1
ii  libcrypt1                  1:4.4.28-2
ii  libdb5.3                   5.3.28+dfsg1-0.10
ii  libevent-2.1-7             2.1.12-stable-5+b1
ii  libpam0g                   1.5.2-2
ii  libssl3                    3.0.5-2
ii  lsb-base                   11.4
ii  sysvinit-utils [lsb-base]  3.05-6
ii  zlib1g                     1:1.2.11.dfsg-4.1

Versions of packages opensmtpd recommends:
ii  opensmtpd-extras  6.7.1-2

Versions of packages opensmtpd suggests:
ii  ca-certificates  20211016

-- debconf information excluded

- answers are not stored into debconf database, as shown by `debconf-show opensmtpd` - answers are not applied to opensmtpd’s configuration (no creation of /etc/mailname, no modification of /etc/aliases) Note that I just tried on a Ubuntu 22.04, and can confirm that 6.8.0p2-4build1 they distribute is also affected, so I will also report it. Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr:en_US

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