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

[Tobias Burnus <tobias.burnus@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Package: libc6
Version: 2.2.5-11.5
Severity: normal

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

Tobias

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux g25 2.4.21-ck3-nfsacl-i2c #1 Thu Jul 24 18:28:13 CEST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8