GNU bug report logs - #10636
chown verbose option (-v) reports incorrect retained owner:group

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Tero Nieminen <tero.t.nieminen+private <at> jyu.fi>

Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:29:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 10636 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: 10636 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10636: chown verbose option (-v) reports incorrect retained
	owner:group
Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:49:55 +0100

Jim Meyering wrote:
> tags 10636 notabug
> thanks
>
> ...
>> Thank you for noticing and reporting that bug.
>> You guessed it.  It is specific to Fedora's version of chown.
>> I.e., when I try to reproduce it with the chown from stock
>> coreutils-8.15, it works as expected.
>
> Oh, and since it's not an upstream bug, I'm marking it as such
> and closing its ticket.

Finally, this was fixed by upstream commit v8.12-59-g6b282e7:

    http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=6b282e7510ca8d
This bug report was last modified 13 years and 174 days ago.

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