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Bug#1007140: please have a check for chown user.group



Package: lintian
Version: 2.114.0
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

chown user.group has been deprecated in favor of chown user:group for
many years. Yet, a codesearch for
[^[:alpha:]]chown[[:space:]][^[:space:]]+\.[^[:space:]] yields 829 hits.
Most of them are in docs, texts and comments, but I still feel that they
should be changed to :.

Would it be a good idea to have a (possibly pedantic) lintian check for
that notation?

Greetings
Marc


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