Bug#205527: libc6: Should use chown with ':' not with '.'

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Fri, 15 Aug 2003 11:04:35 +0200,
Tobias Burnus wrote:
> The current alpha version of the GNU coreutils (5.0.90) contains this
> change:
> 
> "chown: `.' is no longer recognized as a separator in the OWNER:GROUP
>  specifier on POSIX 1003.1-2001 systems.  If chown *was not* compiled
>  on such a system, then it still accepts `.', by default.  If chown
>  was compiled on a POSIX 1003.1-2001 system, then you may enable the
>  old behavior by setting _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 in your environment."
> 
> Thus it makes sense to change the '.' to a ':' in these install scripts:
> 
> --------libc6.preinst-------
>                         chown root.utmp /var/run/utmp
>                         chown root.root /var/run/utmp
>                         chown root.utmp /var/log/wtmp
>                         chown root.root /var/log/wtmp

Yes, that's right :)
I modified all libc6 chown stuff, this is fixed in 2.3.2-3.

Regards,
-- gotom