While updating the German po translation, I noticed many missing white
spaces and some other potential issues. You can also see them in
context by searching for FIXME in de.po provided in #1140471.

If you disagree with any update, please let me know so that I won't
report them again.

Issue: whichresemble → which resemble

#: adduser:1348
"To avoid ambiguity with numerical UIDs, usernames whichresemble numbers or "
"negative numbers are not allowed."
--
Issue 1: adash → a dash
Issue 2: thefollowing → the following
Issue 3: charactersincluding → characters including

#: adduser:1370
"To avoid problems, the username must not start with adash, plus sign, or "
"tilde, and it must not contain any of thefollowing: colon, comma, slash, or "
"any whitespace charactersincluding spaces, tabs, and newlines."
--
Issue 1: ofletters → of letters
Issue 2: Previous paragraph said that is must not start with a dash
Issue 3: andnot → and not
Issue 4: Forcompatibility → For compatibility
Issue 5: supportedat → supported at
Issue 6: optionto → option to

#: adduser:1385
"To avoid problems, the username should consist only ofletters, digits, "
"underscores, periods, at signs and dashes, andnot start with a dash (as "
"defined by IEEE Std 1003.1-2001). Forcompatibility with Samba machine "
"accounts, $ is also supportedat the end of the username.  (Use the `--allow-"
"all-names' optionto bypass this restriction.)"
--
Issue 1: expressionconfigured → expression configured
Issue 2: reconfigure%s → reconfigure %s

#: adduser:1397
"Please enter a username matching the regular expressionconfigured via the %s "
"configuration variable.  Use the`--allow-bad-names' option to relax this "
"check or reconfigure%s in configuration."
--
Issue: Reviewer says it should be: No user may be deprived of his primary group membership. Exiting.

#: deluser:503
"You may not remove the user from their primary group."
--
Issue: cannot → Cannot

#: AdduserCommon.pm:198
"cannot open configuration file %s: `%s'\n"
--
Issue: Continueing. → Continuing.

#: AdduserCommon.pm:367
"`%s' refused the given user name, but --allow-all-names is given. "
"Continueing."

Control: tags -1 confirmed

Thanks for spotting those. The missing spaces turned out to be a
systematic error when splitting strings for better presentation in the
code.

I think I have fixed them in wip/debian-bug-1140472.

I would like to speak to that reviewer. Translating this back to German
would be "Du darfst keinem Benutzer seine primäre Gruppe vorenthalten",
and that sounds "geschraubt", even in English. Not being a native
speaker of English, I would like to keep it that way, and it also adds a
gender issue.

I would be willing to settle on:

A user cannot be removed from their primary group,
Removing a user from their primary group is not permitted, or
A user must belong to a primary group.

Both fixed.

Greetings
Marc

Control: tags -1 confirmed

Thanks for spotting those. The missing spaces turned out to be a
systematic error when splitting strings for better presentation in the
code.

I think I have fixed them in wip/debian-bug-1140472.

I would like to speak to that reviewer. Translating this back to German
would be "Du darfst keinem Benutzer seine primäre Gruppe vorenthalten",
and that sounds "geschraubt", even in English. Not being a native
speaker of English, I would like to keep it that way, and it also adds a
gender issue.

I would be willing to settle on:

A user cannot be removed from their primary group,
Removing a user from their primary group is not permitted, or
A user must belong to a primary group.

Both fixed.

Greetings
Marc

Am Sun, Jun 21, 2026 at 12:25:59PM +0200 schrieb Marc Haber:

I'm not sure who this is, maybe the previous translator would know. I
suggest simply makeing a good judgement and then continue.

Sounds fine to me.

Thanks for the quick handling.

Greetings

              Helge

Am Sun, Jun 21, 2026 at 12:25:59PM +0200 schrieb Marc Haber:

I'm not sure who this is, maybe the previous translator would know. I
suggest simply makeing a good judgement and then continue.

Sounds fine to me.

Thanks for the quick handling.

Greetings

              Helge