Mistake in deluser.conf manpage

[Malcolm Parsons]

"Comment lines must have a pound sign (#) at the beginning of the line."
should be
"Comment lines must have a hash sign (#) at the beginning of the line."
To be consistent with adduser.conf's manpage.

[PaulSchulz (paulschulz)]

This is a good catch. There will be a patch available shortly.

[PaulSchulz (paulschulz)]

The deluser.conf manpage has also been changed, so that they both refer to the hash sign (#).

[PaulSchulz (paulschulz)]

The attached patch makes the documentation consistant. Should this character be described as 'pound' or 'hash' though?

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

hash. The pound sign is "£"

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

The manpage for adduser.conf has been fixed, can you rediff the patch for Gutsy?

daniel@bert:~$ man adduser.conf | grep -i pound
daniel@bert:~$ man adduser.conf | grep -i hash
       sign. Comment lines must have a hash sign (#) in the first column.
daniel@bert:~$ man deluser.conf | grep -i hash
daniel@bert:~$ man deluser.conf | grep -i pound
       must have a pound sign (#) at the beginning of the line.
daniel@bert:~$

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

As described in the previous comments, your report lacks the information we need to investigate the problem further. We'll close this report for now - please reopen it if you can give us the missing information.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Apart from uploading it in Ubuntu, it'd be nice if we could get the change Upstream and/or in Debian. Can you forward the patch?

[Ian Jackson (ijackson)]

I think it would be best just to submit this patch to the Debian BTS. There doesn't seem to be a great deal of point for us to carry a patch for this in Ubuntu. Malcolm, would you be able to do that ?

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Seems to be in Debian now.

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

Unsubscribing Ubuntu Sponsors for main from this bug for now. This will be merged in during Hardy.

[Ian Jackson (ijackson)]

We will merge this into hardy in the normal course of events.