Bug#1013918: lintian: False positive: `chown --reference=foo bar.baz` triggers chown-with-dot

[Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>]

Control: user lintian-maint@debian.org
Control: usertag -1 false-positive

Hi,

Guilhem Moulin wrote:
> roundcube-core's postinst contains
> 
>     chown --reference="$CONFFILE" "$CONFFILE.ucftmp"
> 
> which triggers a false positive with tag chown-with-dot.  Indeed
> "chown --reference=foo bar.baz" matches
> 
>     m{ \b chown \s+ (?: -\S+ \s+ )* ( \S+ [.] \S+ ) \b }x,
> 
> but that chown command has no ambiguous user.group argument.

Nice catch! Thanks for the bug report!

		Regards, Axel
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