Bug#644285: lsb-base: Disabled escape sequences

2013-06-16 Thread Didier Raboud
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 ha

Bug#644285: lsb-base: Disabled escape sequences

2012-05-30 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > On the other hand the non-portability of > built-in "echo" must be taken care of with "/bin/echo". "printf" (in POSIX) accepts a %b specifier to emulate old-fashioned echo. So all the behaviors are available: bashPOSIX sh

Bug#644285: Re: Bug#644285: lsb-base: Disabled escape sequences

2012-05-22 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
> 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 migra

Bug#644285: Re: Bug#644285: lsb-base: Disabled escape sequences

2012-05-21 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
Hi Mats, Le 07.03.2012 14:25, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit : > Le 04.10.2011 21:36, Mats Erik Andersson a écrit : >> At a previous time the functions in 'init-functions' >> were allowed to use >> >>/bin/echo -e >> >> whereas presently they are all forced into using >> >> /bin/echo -n >> >> I

Bug#644285: lsb-base: Disabled escape sequences

2012-03-07 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
tags 644285 +moreinfo thanks Hi Mats, and thanks for your bugreport, Le 04.10.2011 21:36, Mats Erik Andersson a écrit : > At a previous time the functions in 'init-functions' > were allowed to use > >/bin/echo -e > > whereas presently they are all forced into using > > /bin/echo -n > >

Bug#644285: lsb-base: Disabled escape sequences

2011-10-04 Thread Mats Erik Andersson
Package: lsb-base Version: 3.2-28 Severity: normal At a previous time the functions in 'init-functions' were allowed to use /bin/echo -e whereas presently they are all forced into using /bin/echo -n It would be far superior to use /bin/echo -ne as this restores to any script author th