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commit 875caf3ec61ef6000e267daba0e149cafbc2892a
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Fri Jun 26 07:54:16 2026 +0200
improve adduser.8 man page
Thanks: Bjarni Ingi Gislason
commit a023b82478e1021ce96dc0503de866cf889a92b1
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Wed Jun 24 09:43:34 2026 +0200
update german program translation
Thanks: Dr. Helge Kreutzmann
Closes: #1140471
commit efacb6648ba60c94db9c4f782d56448325598249
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Wed Jun 17 22:38:28 2026 +0200
prepare release
Git-Dch: ignore
commit 9c923b14c8bd32003370b08b1934608816ada7df
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Mon Jun 1 15:13:47 2026 +0200
update dutch program translation
Thanks: Frans Spiesschaert <Frans.Spiesschaert@yucom.be>
Closes: #1118210, #1133696
Sorry for mixing up bug numbers
commit 9593f7443ac0d0e491e354ad9ebb437dc8f6eeb2
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Mon May 25 20:12:04 2026 +0200
Add new Romanian program and man page translation
Thanks: Remus-Gabriel Chelu
Closes: #1137603, #1137602
commit db1ba3c5be6999d81a87d74dc52cf6fc7b4880e7
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Mon Jun 15 13:00:36 2026 +0200
implement adduser --force-home
Thanks: Jeff Hanson
Closes: #472820
commit fb832fb9dc399e5468d53f3315026d1685586c1b
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Mon Jun 15 11:46:02 2026 +0200
rewrite assert_user_has_home_directory to also check ownership
Git-Dch: ignore
commit 0c448b73356981c212ad901377e227aa1e0bc59e
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Mon Jun 15 11:11:18 2026 +0200
add a NOTE to adduser.8 regarding group membership
Closes: #1103776
commit 0b906775fc38d4ffa3f5e84c9bbdc5f00cc89917
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Sun Jun 14 22:23:15 2026 +0200
add test case for uid/gid pool with system accounts
Git-Dch: ignore
commit 5981cfadb1bfdd7094cb3e54ecccf7089e3b1408
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Sun Jun 14 20:56:33 2026 +0200
add test case for suidsgidpool
Git-Dch: ignore
commit 5e440a4192f2b37c6bc407c5b2b549b083baba69
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Mon Jun 15 10:58:43 2026 +0200
document no-autopkgtest in tests/control
Git-Dch: ignore
commit 77ddb0ef4936f2ad84b69e1d420fe66695c8d3a9
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Mon Jun 15 10:57:28 2026 +0200
use @ in test/control
Git-Dch: ignore
commit 76b904789c9115bbdbda58d82c1b536c2e2b0562
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Mon Jun 15 10:51:54 2026 +0200
update README.source
Git-Dch: ignore
commit dcebc9ab2191459db579ce7b6ca138518609b051
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Mon Jun 15 10:35:28 2026 +0200
add script that runs the testsuite without autopkgtest
Closes: #1101457
autopkgtest needs a full perl, having an external mechanism is the only
way to run the tests without full perl installed. This needs to be run
manually in a container or scratch system.
commit 8d23a657d6fa2e821b5aba3c70f9e63973352f21
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Mon Jun 15 10:15:24 2026 +0200
migrate to planless Test::More, skip some tests without mount
Git-Dch: ignore
commit ccc505a093a3b329e887b10d7a2e95ca24e6503c
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Mon Jun 15 10:14:47 2026 +0200
migrate to "planless" Test::More, skip if no cron
Git-Dch: ignore
commit 6408116192d7c75f9d43c07b23d47e0bc2b4c289
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Mon Jun 15 10:12:35 2026 +0200
migrate to "planful" Test::More
Git-Dch: ignore
commit 76106035c910f315f9bca2f9f304e3d1e2f9c101
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Mon Jun 1 14:34:38 2026 +0200
add encrypt_home_no_package
We test whether adduser --encrypt-home fails correctly when
the ecryptfs package is not installed.
commit 525133a5699f148a44e411e993285f78edadf0eb
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Mon Jun 1 11:11:12 2026 +0200
hike up module version number to 3.157
Git-Dch: ignore
commit f76989b9aad51fc1d70253dc4c5929c83080cc5a
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Mon Jun 1 10:15:51 2026 +0200
also execute ecryptfs test without ecryptfs-utils installed
Git-Dch: ignore
commit 2c7b5724da72201ca245816c7a6865aed73c807e
Author: Mateus Rodrigues de Morais <mateus.morais@canonical.com>
Date: Thu Jun 1 15:19:37 2023 -0300
Add encrypted home tests with isolation-machine restriction
commit 20ebad6a26fe2ec02dd2ff6bebb4eb8412ddab69
Author: Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@ubuntu.com>
Date: Fri Dec 5 22:25:34 2008 -0800
Add support for encrypting home directories
* adduser: Add --encrypt-home option, which calls ecryptfs-setup-private
for the hard work.
* doc/adduser.8: document the --encrypt-home option
* debian/control: suggest ecryptfs-utils >= 67-1
* deluser: remove all of /var/lib/ecryptfs/$user with --remove-home
commit dd7446de35709dfa52d1129f427c64d05b5afc31
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Mon Jun 1 14:43:53 2026 +0200
change logic and return values
0 means okay, != 0 means something wrong (meaningful return value)
Improve error message.
That also means that the callers must turn their logic around.
commit cb129e24bf044cfb06badb1dcb6266b8981aa674
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Mon Jun 1 14:37:07 2026 +0200
have which return undef if the program is not found
This should not change anything since this code path was
previously unused.
commit aab7a62b7be5a89d596b5094fc5d42dc8f59b700
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Mon Jun 1 14:35:57 2026 +0200
sanitize log output
Some UTF-8 chars break log output in testing
commit 8f30553550bd9eeab3cf531541272235048a263b
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Fri Jan 23 19:27:56 2026 +0100
adapt three tests to use the new cleanup class
Git-Dch: ignore
commit c3cbc5f6bfe601fd239e1aef720a5a7f0879e3a7
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Fri Jan 23 18:59:34 2026 +0100
make skel.t use the new Common functions
Git-Dch: ignore
commit 0c82dcc40941a30e47f7b1cf5e2668813d7b3369
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Fri Jan 23 18:58:25 2026 +0100
add code to do better home directory tests
this pulls part of the skel.t to the library so that other tests
can work with strange files in /etc/skel, this might help debugging
code that handles the home directory contents
Git-Dch: ignore
commit af354ad51cc32538f2f117b9c6db0e77b2a06c45
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Fri Jan 23 18:57:49 2026 +0100
add cleanup class to help cleaning up after tests
Git-Dch: ignore
commit 0a355dc1e756d473db5378ae6c3627bc1a32cdca
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Fri Jan 23 18:56:53 2026 +0100
improve existing test helper functions
This also adds cleanup_user and cleanup_tree
Git-Dch: ignore
commit 039bbc7e85b34f1900fae7051eb60752870a3c9b
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Fri Jan 23 18:55:20 2026 +0100
make AdduserTestsCommon a proper module
Git-Dch: ignore
commit 9b7314cd09373c98dbca89093cdfd65c22e6a8be
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Fri Jan 23 18:54:33 2026 +0100
add empty 00test to verify that the lib is okay
Git-Dch: ignore
commit b139f1060521e57de27cdb9cbde3de663e7ffb43
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Thu Jan 22 22:00:52 2026 +0100
remove unused get_dir_mode
Git-Dch: ignore
commit b2eedf896d6d544b426996ed3123270123bb590a
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Mon Jun 1 07:07:25 2026 +0200
prepare release
Git-Dch: ignore
commit 46250627c9c4e755ab8beff2738564345cb582ff
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Mon May 4 17:33:35 2026 +0200
demote "crontab not found" warning to info
it is now perfectly normal to run a system that doesn't have cron
commit 215f4b7b45bccfa86ad32c02ecca799f729d3370
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Tue Apr 7 15:28:15 2026 +0200
streamline log level names.
Closes: #1132881
commit 87fdeaad272d2aaf353fc6e4fd0fe39b68d0ded1
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Sat Mar 28 09:42:23 2026 +0100
remove trailing slaehes from pool directories
Git-Dch: ignore
commit febb7a47b4aecc2f3608ae95b9a2de35082b73be
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Sat Mar 28 09:41:58 2026 +0100
clarify pool file read warnings
Git-Dch: ignore
commit 402b47dd722358226b06a520378ff0be97e0951d
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Sat Mar 28 09:41:34 2026 +0100
ignore extra fields at the end of pool file lines
commit b979e1ef86dc77a66e0c9840d3331e70c35a035f
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Sat Mar 28 09:41:00 2026 +0100
remove trailing slashes from example pool directories
Git-Dch: ignore
commit 259fed18eb33d658bd2b7c7f65273cc0f7c97255
Author: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Date: Sat Mar 28 09:40:31 2026 +0100
clarify adduser pool format documentation
Git-Dch: ignore
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