Bug#48247: echo -n
On Mon, Oct 25, 1999 at 10:12:03PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
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> On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 10:11:50AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > But do you agree that with your current proposal, you still have to fix all
> > scripts that use -e/escape codes?
>
> Like I said before, I don't think this issue is relevant to debian
> policy. People can fix them, or not, depending on circumstances.
OK, so basically what you're saying is you won't object to me filing reports
against packages that use echo -e/escape codes in #!/bin/sh scripts. In that
case, I hope that by the time we do the next release after potato, we will
have got rid of all -e/escape codes in Debian.
PS Here are a few packages that use -e/escape codes in #!/bin/sh scripts:
bison, debianutils, dpkg, kbd, libc6, login, util-linux. I found these just
by grepping pre*/post* scripts.
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