[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#450719: Bug#450719: Bug#450719: passwd: usermod --append option is not recognized as valid

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Christian Perrier (bubulle at debian.org):
> notfound 450719 4.0.18.2-1
> thanks
> 
> Quoting Tim Miller Dyck (editor at canadianmennonite.org):
> > Package: passwd
> > Version: 1:4.0.18.1-7
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > usermod --append --groups cmstaff editor
> > 
> > 	gives the usage screen and does not do the change, but
> > 
> > usermod -a --groups cmstaff editor
> > 
> > 	works correctly.
> 
> 
> I actually can't reproduce this in the version in unstable. The
> changelog(s) do not give any cllue about changes affecting this but I
> know that here and there long options were'nt working
> properly. Perhaps this was fixed but not correctly documented.


On the other hand, I could reproduce that bug on etch (4.0.18.1-7) soo
this confirms the bug as being fixed after etch was released.

Strange, however, that we didn't explicitely document that in
changelogs


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