Debian Bug report logs - #488977
adduser: manual page out of date wrt --shell|-s flag

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Aleksi Suhonen <debian-reportbug-2008@ssd.axu.tm>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: adduser: manual page out of date wrt --shell|-s flag

Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:54:03 +0300

Package: adduser
Version: 3.108
Severity: minor

The synopsis section in the adduser manual page says that "--shell"
can be abbreviated to "-s", but testing it with:

debian% adduser -s /bin/zsh test

reports "-s" as ambiguous (shell, system).

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.22     Debian configuration management sy
ii  passwd                        1:4.1.1-2  change and administer password and
ii  perl-base                     5.10.0-10  The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis

adduser recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
* adduser/homedir-permission: true

Message #10 received at 488977@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joerg Hoh <joerg@joerghoh.de>

To: Aleksi Suhonen <debian-reportbug-2008@ssd.axu.tm>

Cc: 488977@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [Adduser-devel] Bug#488977: adduser: manual page out of date wrt --shell|-s flag

Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 09:02:09 +0200

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Hi Aleksi

On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 04:54:03PM +0300, Aleksi Suhonen wrote:
> The synopsis section in the adduser manual page says that "--shell"
> can be abbreviated to "-s", but testing it with:
> 
> debian% adduser -s /bin/zsh test
> 
> reports "-s" as ambiguous (shell, system).

Thanks for spotting. I committed the fix in SVN.

Joerg

-- 
What did you do to the cat? It looks half-dead. -Schroedinger's wife

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Message #15 received at 488977-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>

To: 488977-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#488977: fixed in adduser 3.109

Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:32:02 +0000

Source: adduser
Source-Version: 3.109

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
adduser, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

adduser_3.109.dsc
  to pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.109.dsc
adduser_3.109.tar.gz
  to pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.109.tar.gz
adduser_3.109_all.deb
  to pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.109_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 488977@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org> (supplier of updated adduser package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:11:17 +0100
Source: adduser
Binary: adduser
Architecture: source all
Version: 3.109
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian Adduser Developers <adduser-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Stephen Gran <sgran@debian.org>
Description: 
 adduser    - add and remove users and groups
Closes: 488977 489041 492429
Changes: 
 adduser (3.109) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   [ Joerg Hoh ]
   * fix adduser manpage (closes: #488977), thanks Aleksi Suhonen
   * New translations:
     - es (thanks Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>)
         (Closes: #492429, #489041)
 .
   [ Stephen Gran ]
   * Add Joerg to uploaders and remove Marc - thanks for your work
   * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.0 - no changes
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