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regarding adduser: Typos (missing whitespace) in programm strings
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Package: adduser
Version: 3.156
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
While updating the German po translation, I noticed many missing white
spaces and some other potential issues. You can also see them in
context by searching for FIXME in de.po provided in #1140471.
If you disagree with any update, please let me know so that I won't
report them again.
Issue: whichresemble → which resemble
#: adduser:1348
"To avoid ambiguity with numerical UIDs, usernames whichresemble numbers or "
"negative numbers are not allowed."
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Issue 1: adash → a dash
Issue 2: thefollowing → the following
Issue 3: charactersincluding → characters including
#: adduser:1370
"To avoid problems, the username must not start with adash, plus sign, or "
"tilde, and it must not contain any of thefollowing: colon, comma, slash, or "
"any whitespace charactersincluding spaces, tabs, and newlines."
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Issue 1: ofletters → of letters
Issue 2: Previous paragraph said that is must not start with a dash
Issue 3: andnot → and not
Issue 4: Forcompatibility → For compatibility
Issue 5: supportedat → supported at
Issue 6: optionto → option to
#: adduser:1385
"To avoid problems, the username should consist only ofletters, digits, "
"underscores, periods, at signs and dashes, andnot start with a dash (as "
"defined by IEEE Std 1003.1-2001). Forcompatibility with Samba machine "
"accounts, $ is also supportedat the end of the username. (Use the `--allow-"
"all-names' optionto bypass this restriction.)"
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Issue 1: expressionconfigured → expression configured
Issue 2: reconfigure%s → reconfigure %s
#: adduser:1397
"Please enter a username matching the regular expressionconfigured via the %s "
"configuration variable. Use the`--allow-bad-names' option to relax this "
"check or reconfigure%s in configuration."
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Issue: Reviewer says it should be: No user may be deprived of his primary group
membership. Exiting.
#: deluser:503
"You may not remove the user from their primary group."
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Issue: cannot → Cannot
#: AdduserCommon.pm:198
"cannot open configuration file %s: `%s'\n"
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Issue: Continueing. → Continuing.
#: AdduserCommon.pm:367
"`%s' refused the given user name, but --allow-all-names is given. "
"Continueing."
-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to de_DE.UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii passwd 1:4.19.3-2
adduser recommends no packages.
Versions of packages adduser suggests:
ii cron 3.0pl1-209
ii liblocale-gettext-perl 1.07-10
ii perl 5.40.1-8
pn quota <none>
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Source: adduser
Source-Version: 3.159
Done: Marc Haber <[email protected]>
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.
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 [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:56:44 +0200
Source: adduser
Architecture: source
Version: 3.159
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Adduser Developers <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Marc Haber <[email protected]>
Closes: 446362 1140472
Changes:
adduser (3.159) unstable; urgency=medium
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* Fix debian/NEWS typo. Thanks to Daniel Lewart
* adduser: add --add-authorized-key option.
Patch by Juan Muñoz, thank you! (Closes: #446362)
* fix some whitespace and spelling issues.
Thanks to Dr. Helge Kreutzmann (Closes: #1140472)
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