> 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! Best regards, Mats Erik Andersson, DM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org