Bug#88340: Use "chown user:group", not "chown user.group"
On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 01:36:23PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> I fail to see how this affects Debian? We use the GNU tools. The chowns
> happening in maintainer scripts and elsewhere are for a known set of names
> and so will not be affected by this.
Unless, of course, you had a user with a login root.root.
It seems to me that the colon notation is less ambiguous but there is
no pressing need to convert to it.
I will fix my maintainer scripts in their next uploads.
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