[Bug 1262204] [NEW] tomact7 installation is confusing the user with home-directy. Tomcat is saying "directory will not be created"

[Michael Basse]

Public bug reported:

i installed tomcat7 on a fresh ubuntu 12.04 installation (fully dist-
upgraded)

The installation of tomcat7 is telling that no home-directy will be
created (sorry its german)

Creating config file /etc/default/tomcat7 with new version
Lege Systembenutzer »tomcat7« (UID 121) an ...
Lege neuen Benutzer »tomcat7« (UID 121) mit Gruppe »tomcat7« an ...
Erstelle Home-Verzeichnis »/usr/share/tomcat7« nicht.   <---------- Creating home-directory... NOT
 * Starting Tomcat servlet engine tomcat7                               [ OK ] 
authbind (1.2.0build3) wird eingerichtet ...

michael at raidbuntu:~$ ls -all /usr/share/tomcat7
insgesamt 32
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root  4096 Dez 18 14:03 .    <--------- created during the installation
drwxr-xr-x 284 root root 12288 Dez 18 14:03 ..
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Dez 18 14:03 bin
-rw-r--r--   1 root root    39 Jul 12  2012 defaults.md5sum
-rw-r--r--   1 root root  1960 Jul 12  2012 defaults.template
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root  4096 Dez 18 14:03 lib

michael at raidbuntu:~$ date
Mi 18. Dez 14:11:26 CET 2013

So as it seems the message from the installer is wrong, because its
saying "home-directly will not be created" but it was creating the
home.directoy.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: tomcat7 7.0.26-1ubuntu1.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-43.66~precise1-generic 3.5.7.23
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-43-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Dec 18 14:08:43 2013
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 12.04.2 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20130214)
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: tomcat7
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: tomcat7 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise

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