Package: dash Version: 0.5.4-6 Severity: critical
the handling of double quotes does not conform to posix spex: quote from http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/xcu_chap02.html "The backslash shall retain its special meaning as an escape character (see Escape Character (Backslash)) only when followed by one of the following characters when considered special: $ ` " \ <newline>" as this applies to the "echo" builtin, it breaks the debian maintenance script /usr/sbin/update-exim4.conf, see Bug#462460 $ echo "a\nb" a b $ /bin/echo "a\nb" a\nb thank you for your attention. regards Peter. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23 (PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages dash depends on: ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries dash recommends no packages. -- debconf information: * dash/sh: true -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
