Bug#1007140: please have a check for chown user.group

2022-03-12 Thread Marc Haber
On Sat, Mar 12, 2022 at 08:52:45AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > Marc Haber writes: > > That regexp was copied verbatim from my codesearch search box. Did you > > forget to switch the dropdown to "regex"? > > > The shadow package contains about ten of those constructs, for example > > >

Bug#1007140: please have a check for chown user.group

2022-03-12 Thread Russ Allbery
Marc Haber writes: > That regexp was copied verbatim from my codesearch search box. Did you > forget to switch the dropdown to "regex"? > The shadow package contains about ten of those constructs, for example > shadow_1:4.11.1+dfsg1-2/contrib/shadow-anonftp.patch > -

Bug#1007140: please have a check for chown user.group

2022-03-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 01:47:27PM -0800, Felix Lechner wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 1:18 PM Marc Haber > wrote: > > > > [^[:alpha:]]chown[[:space:]][^[:space:]]+\.[^[:space:]] > > I cannot get that search to work properly on codesearch.d.n. Do you > have a sample from the archive, please?

Bug#1007140: please have a check for chown user.group

2022-03-11 Thread Felix Lechner
Hi, On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 1:18 PM Marc Haber wrote: > > [^[:alpha:]]chown[[:space:]][^[:space:]]+\.[^[:space:]] I cannot get that search to work properly on codesearch.d.n. Do you have a sample from the archive, please? Kind regards Felix Lechner

Bug#1007140: please have a check for chown user.group

2022-03-11 Thread Marc Haber
Package: lintian Version: 2.114.0 Severity: wishlist Hi, chown user.group has been deprecated in favor of chown user:group for many years. Yet, a codesearch for [^[:alpha:]]chown[[:space:]][^[:space:]]+\.[^[:space:]] yields 829 hits. Most of them are in docs, texts and comments, but I still feel