Package: adduser
Version: 3.137
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: giacomo.bo...@gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,
on my ap to date Debian Sid system

$ man addgroup # says
...

   Add an existing user to an existing group
       If called with two non-option arguments, adduser will add  an  existing
       user to an existing group.
...
$ 

but when I try to add a user to a group, this is what it happens

$ sudo addgroup donald ducks
[sudo] password for boffi: 
fatal: addgroup with two arguments is an unspecified operation.
$ 

as far as I can tell, this was the outcome of bug 664869,
where the OP claimed that the two arguments call was not
mentioned in the man page.

It is mentioned, at least in my man page.

Regards ፨ gb

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers oldoldstable
  APT policy: (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.3.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, 
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=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  1:4.13+dfsg1-3

adduser recommends no packages.

Versions of packages adduser suggests:
ii  cron                    3.0pl1-178
ii  liblocale-gettext-perl  1.07-6
ii  perl                    5.36.0-9
pn  quota                   <none>

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

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