[Pkg-shadow-devel] Re: Please push shadow-4.0.3-31sarge2 to sarge

[Christian Perrier]

reopen 277750
reopen 302388
thanks

Quoting Colin Watson (cjwatson@debian.org):

Please cancel my request to push that release. It is obviously buggy.

> >   * Shorten down the Dutch debconf translation for the root password
> >     input so that it fits in one screen. Closes: #277750
>=20
> I can't find this change in the diff, nor indeed anything matching
> /\<nl\>/. Are you sure it got made properly?

Crap, it did not.=A0:-(. No idea why (except that we work on too much
stuff simultaneously in shadow package development).

>=20
> >   * man/usermod.8: Document -o option in usermod
> > 	           Closes: #302388
>=20
> +.IP "\fB-o\fR"
> +Used with \fI-r\fR option allow change user ID to non-unique value.
>=20
> This isn't great English; perhaps try this instead:
>=20
> "In conjunction with the \fI-r\fR option, allow changing the user ID to
> a non-unique value".
>=20
> Also, the -r option is not documented in usermod(8), so it doesn't seem
> to make a lot of sense as it stands.

Crap again. This is not "-r" but "-u".=20

I'll try to make again a release with the Dutch fix, because it
affects d-i usability. I'll also correct the now wrong man page, of
course.