maintainer-script-calls-chown-improperly
chown user.group is called in one of the maintainer
scripts. The correct syntax is chown user:group. Using "." as a
separator is still supported by the GNU tools, but it will fail as soon
as a system uses the "." in user or group names.
| Severity: | warning |
| Experimental: | false |
| Renamed from: | maintainer-script-should-not-use-deprecated-chown-usage |
See also
the chown(1) manual page
- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag