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chown: warn when encountering deprecated dot separator

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Subject: bug#44770: closed (chown: warn when encountering deprecated dot
 separator)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 02:24:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#44770: chown: warn when encountering deprecated dot separator

which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 44770 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: 44770-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: chown: warn when encountering deprecated dot separator
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2022 18:23:38 -0800

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Thanks for the suggestion. I installed the attached patches to do that.

[0001-build-update-gnulib-submodule-to-latest.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

[0002-chown-warn-about-USER.GROUP.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: chown: warn about the dot when encountering it
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 05:17:49 +0800

Maybe print warning messages when encountering the dot,
(info "(coreutils) chown invocation")
Else Grandpa won't ever know,
https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/issues/468
until one day when it's too late...
(And his program starts messing things up on some other system.)

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