Package: coreutils Version: 5.2.1-2 Severity: minor
The info and manpage for echo suggest that the argument is displayed verbatim, unless -e is used, in which case escape sequences are recognized. Actually, escaping seems to be now the default, with -E used to disable it, and -e doing nothing, for backwards compatibility. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.6-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.23-1 Access control list shared library ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
