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adduser package

  1. Bug #36267
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 36267

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Markus Jonskog (omljud) wrote :

Got the same error while updating hal.

It's an error in /usr/share/perl5/Debian/AdduserCommon.pm .
The character _ is at the moment not valid in option names in adduser.conf.

In the subroutine read_config, change

if ((($var, $val) = /^\s*([a-zA-Z0-9]+)\s*=\s*(.*)/) != 2) {

to

if ((($var, $val) = /^\s*([_a-zA-Z0-9]+)\s*=\s*(.*)/) != 2) {