It may bear mentioning also that the offending lines of code do not appear in the original script, only the Debian variant. In the original, the same part of the program reads simply
BLUE="^[[34;01m" CYAN="^[[36;01m" GREEN="^[[32;01m" RED="^[[31;01m" OFF="^[[0m" (where "^[" is the actual control character) The original author for whatever reason just uses the escape codes rather than bringing tput into the mix. See: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/keychain/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org