Adduser devel - Jan 2008 - Bug#460895: adduser: --group --gid documented, but not permitted by software

Package: adduser
Version: 3.102
Severity: normal

Hi,

 The adduser manpage says:

   Add a user group
       If adduser is called with the --group option and without  the  --system
       option, or addgroup is called respectively, a user group will be added.

       A GID will be chosen from the range specified for user UIDS in the con-
       figuration file.  The GID can be overridden with the --gid option.

       The group is created with no users.

 but if you actually try this then you get:

jadzia:~# adduser --group --gid 1234 fred
adduser: The --group, --ingroup, and --gid options are mutually exclusive.
jadzia:~# 

 Please fix the code to match the documentation, which is the correct 
behaviour.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (700, ''stable''), (650,
''testing''), (625, ''unstable''), (600,
''dapper''), (500, ''dapper-updates'')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages adduser depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]       1.5.11etch1  Debian configuration management sy
ii  passwd                      1:4.0.18.1-7 change and administer password and
ii  perl-base                   5.8.8-7etch1 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis

adduser recommends no packages.

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

close 460895 3.103
thanks
This one time, at band camp, Jonathan Amery said:
> 
>  Please fix the code to match the documentation, which is the correct 
> behaviour.
The --group option is deprecated and basically gone.  Use addgroup
instead.  The documentation was adjusted in 3.103.

Thanks
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> close 460895 3.103
Bug#460895: adduser: --group --gid documented, but not permitted by software
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http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#closing.
Bug marked as fixed in version 3.103, send any further explanations to Jonathan
Amery <jdamery at ysolde.ucam.org>
> thanks
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