Bug#644285: lsb-base: Disabled escape sequences

[Didier Raboud <didier@raboud.com>]

Control: tags -1 -moreinfo +wontfix

Le mardi, 22 mai 2012 20.39:56, Mats Erik Andersson a écrit :
> > Do you intend to provide more info to this bug ? Without input, it will
> > certainly not get fixed, either way.
> 
> I am alive, but without access to my Debian developping machines.
> Twice I have written a response, but discarded the text. The problem
> here is that on one hand the dependency boot migration is playing
> russian roulette with booting messages, tossing them and tearing
> every coherence apartr. On the other hand the non-portability of
> built-in "echo" must be taken care of with "/bin/echo".
> 
> It would be meaningful to document the explicit and implicit
> means of formatting messages available today, but it also
> doubtful whether to announce such content which would by its
> very nature implicitly encourage authors to use such mechanisms,
> means of which you are rightfully skeptical. I am still pondering
> on this matter, though!

Thanks for the more detailed input on this matter.

Since a year now, I haven't changed my mind on this: log messages should be 
kept simple and I don't see a good reason to let the "structured messages 
using standard escape sequences" feature allowed by "echo -e" to be used by 
maintainers. I'm then hereby tagging this bug as wontfix.

Cheers,

OdyX