The adduser(8) man page (LOGGING section) lists message priorities as:

crit, error, warning, info, debug, trace

The actual accepted values in Debian::AdduserLogging::numeric_msglevel()
are:

trace, debug, info, warn, err/error, fatal

Two mismatches:

- "warning" should be "warn" ("warning" causes die())
- "crit" should be "fatal" ("crit" causes die())

The config file comments in /etc/adduser.conf are correct. The man page
appears to use syslog priority names (from the logmsglevel() translation
map) rather than the config-facing names.

Hi,

Thanks for spotting this.

Would this fix it?


diff --git a/doc/adduser.8 b/doc/adduser.8
index c4c8f63..c9ad708 100644
--- a/doc/adduser.8
+++ b/doc/adduser.8
@@ -555,9 +555,9 @@ Every message that \fBadduser\fR prints has a priority value
  assigned by the authors.
  This priority can not be changed at run time.
  Available priority values are
-\fBcrit\fR,
+\fBfatal\fR,
  \fBerror\fR,
-\fBwarning\fR,
+\fBwarn\fR,
  \fBinfo\fR,
  \fBdebug\fR,
  and

That's what happens when you write the docs first. Sorry.

Greetings
Marc

Hi,

that ought to do it :)

Thanks!

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
adduser, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1132881@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> (supplier of updated adduser package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2026 07:06:57 +0200
Source: adduser
Architecture: source
Version: 3.156
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Adduser Developers <adduser@packages.debian.org>
Changed-By: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
Closes: 1132881
Changes:
 adduser (3.156) unstable; urgency=medium
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   * ignore extra fields at the end of pool file lines
   * streamline log level names. (Closes: #1132881)
   * demote "crontab not found" warning to info
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