Package: debconf
Version: 1.4.46
Severity: minor

Hi,

>From reading the docs, I have learned that ~/.debconfrc is mainly
geared for debugging. However, I have been confused by the fact that
woody's debconf honors $HOME when determining ~/.debconfrc, while
sid's debconf uses getpwuid($>) to determine the home directory. This
is relevant when debconf is invoked via sudo, as during package
installation.

Additionally, Config.pm only considers ~/.debconfrc only if
DEBCONF_SYSTEMRC is not set in the environment.

This is fairly non-standard behavior for a ~/.foo-File, and should be
clearly documented in the manpages, which is not currently the case.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-zgserver
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages debconf depends on:
ii  debconf-i18n                  1.4.46     full internationalization support 
ii  perl-base                     5.8.4-8    The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis

-- debconf information excluded


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