bug#44770: closed (chown: warn when encountering deprecated dot separator)

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and subject line chown: warn when encountering deprecated dot separator
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regarding chown: warn when encountering deprecated dot separator
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> chown: warn about the dot when encountering it
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> Sat, 21 Nov 2020 05:17:49 +0800
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> 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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Thanks for the suggestion. I installed the attached patches to do that.

0001-build-update-gnulib-submodule-to-latest.patch
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0002-chown-warn-about-USER.GROUP.patch
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