Bug#488039: policy: chown uses owner:group not owner.group

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

Ian Jackson wrote:
> Kurt Roeckx writes ("Bug#488039: policy: chown uses owner:group not owner.group"):
>> There are several places in policy that use something like "root.root",
>> when talking about the owner and group of a file.  People used to use
>> that notation to separate the owner and group, and it
>> still works, but the proper notation would be "root:root".
> 
> What is wrong with <user>.<group> ?  I see that it's not currently
> documented but it has worked forever and I hope it's not going away.

A <username> can contain a '.'

Cheers

Luk