[Adduser-devel] Bug#440236: Bug#440236: adduser: deluser.conf manpage calls a hash sign a pound sign

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Malcolm Parsons said:
> deluser.conf.5 says:
> Comment lines must have a pound sign (#) at the beginning of the line.
> 
> adduser.conf.5 says:
> Comment lines must have a hash sign (#) in the first column.
> 
> adduser.conf.5 correctly calls the # a hash sign.
> 
> This was reported in Ubuntu:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/adduser/+bug/63506

In American English, it is called a pound sign, so this is technically
not incorrect.

That being said, I have no objection to changing to the more universally
recognized form.
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