Public bug reported:
A new release of adduser is available for merging from Debian.
Ubuntu: 3.157ubuntu2
Debian Unstable: 3.159
### New Debian Changes ###
adduser (3.159) unstable; urgency=medium
* Fix debian/NEWS typo. Thanks to Daniel Lewart
* adduser: add --add-authorized-key option.
Patch by Juan Muñoz, thank you! (Closes: #446362)
* fix some whitespace and spelling issues.
Thanks to Dr. Helge Kreutzmann (Closes: #1140472)
-- Marc Haber <[email protected]> Fri, 28 Aug 2026
17:56:44 +0200
adduser (3.158) unstable; urgency=medium
* update german program translation.
Thanks to Dr. Helge Kreutzmann (Closes: #1140471)
* improve adduser.8 man page.
Thanks to Bjarni Ingi Gislason
* try hard to align UID and GID of user and usergroup.
This is a big re-work of the uid and gid selection mechanism.
Thanks to C. Gatzemeier, Ian Jackson (Closes: #583976, #453086)
* reformat ancient parts of changelog
-- Marc Haber <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Jul 2026
10:21:06 +0200
### Old Ubuntu Delta ###
adduser (3.157ubuntu2) stonking; urgency=medium
* debian/tests/f/firstlastuidgid.t:
- Fix autopkgtest firstlastuidgid.t uid ranges conflicting with
systemd-sysusers allocation (LP: #2166367)
-- Sebastien Bacher <[email protected]> Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:08:35
+0200
adduser (3.157ubuntu1) stonking; urgency=medium
* Merge with Debian unstable (LP: #2153280). Remaining changes:
- extrausers support for adduser and gpasswd (LP #1323732)
- Add support for ZFS home directories (LP #1873263)
- Enable private home directories by default (LP #48734)
Set DIR_MODE=0750 and SYS_DIR_MODE=0750 in the default adduser.conf,
and match those in the check_octal fallback for invalid values.
Dropped changes:
- Add support for encrypting home directories (MR: !87)
(upstreamed in Debian 3.157)
- Regenerate po4a translation catalogs (build artefacts)
-- Nadzeya Hutsko <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:48:29 +0200
** Affects: adduser (Ubuntu)
Importance: Wishlist
Status: New
** Tags: dcr-merge
** Changed in: adduser (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
** Changed in: adduser (Ubuntu)
Milestone: None => ubuntu-26.11
--
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2171191
Title:
Merge adduser 3.159 from Debian for tenacious cycle
To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/adduser/+bug/2171191/+subscriptions
--
ubuntu-bugs mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
