Comment 4 for bug 1262204

Thank you for taking the time to file this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.

The message "Not creating home directory" is just a consequence of the package postinst using the --no-create-home option to adduser as /usr/share/tomcat7 is provided by packaging. I don't believe that there is any problem with doing this.

Do you have a specific problem here apart from the misleading message?

Assuming that you're reporting just the misleading message, the best way forward would be to verify that the message is also misleading in tomcat7 in Debian, and then to file a bug there, as Ubuntu is unlikely to diverge from Debian for such a trivial bug.