Adduser devel - Nov 2007 - Bug#451967: adduser: claims to remove a group but does not do it

Package: adduser
Version: 3.105
Severity: normal

# deluser credativ
Entferne Benutzer »credativ« ...
Warning: Removing group `test', since no other user is part of it.
Fertig.

But ...

# getent group test
test:x:1000:

The group is still in /etc/group.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-k7 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]      1.5.16        Debian configuration management sy
ii  passwd                     1:4.0.18.1-11 change and administer password and
ii  perl-base                  5.8.8-12      The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis

adduser recommends no packages.

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



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merge 451967 454928
thanks

Hi Peter 

This is a misleading message, there''s no code behind it. Will be fixed
in
next release. Thanks for mentioning it.

J?rg


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Your message dated Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:17:03 +0000
with message-id <E1JVro7-00058a-4J at ries.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#451967: fixed in adduser 3.106
has caused the Debian Bug report #451967,
regarding adduser: claims to remove a group but does not do it
to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

(NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this
message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system
misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact owner at bugs.debian.org
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