Re: ITP: deluser
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 03:28:02PM +0200, Roland Bauerschmidt wrote:
> Yes, of course. I've fixed some bugs in adduser and would like to adopt
> the package. What does Guy say to this?
I wanted to adopt bash a while back but never got a response from him.
Perhaps he thought I am not able to handle such a package since Matthias
Klose got a response and is now maintainer of that package.
> You can get the current package still at
> http://www.copyleft.de/pub/author/roland/debian/adduser/
> Please note that I didn't change the version number since the version I
> put there yesterday although some more bugs are fixed and changelog is
> improved.
Thanks for your work.
> The current changelog is:
>
> adduser (3.11.2) unstable; urgency=low
>
> * NMU
> * new tool 'deluser' to remove users the same way like adding them
> * manpage for deluser(8) and deluser.conf(5)
> * translation of adduser and deluser to German
> * fixed bug that uid and gid 0 were not recognised (fixes: #59859, #60491,
> #50620, #56468, #53606)
> * text "enter groupname" instead of "enter username" if adding a group
> (fixes: #52701)
> * also allowing usernames like foo$ with --force-badname for compatibility
> with Samba machine accounts (fixes: #28149)
> * allow also setting full gecos fields with --gecos like
> "Roland Bauerschmidt,Room 3,0421/3763482,0421/373545" (fixes: #44031)
WAAH! I needed that yesterday converting a SuSE system into Debian. I had
to split the gecos field and set that data with chfn afterwards. Took
half an hour - why didn't I read -devel before leaving to university??
*sigh*
> * last NMU has already fixed bug 44810 (fixes: #44810)
>
> -- Roland Bauerschmidt <roland@copyleft.de> Mon, 24 Apr 2000 15:20:30 +0200
I will upload it tonight if it looks okay to me.
Thanks
Torsten
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Torsten Landschoff Bluehorn@IRC <torsten@debian.org>
Debian Developer and Quality Assurance Committee Member
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