On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:24:50PM +0200, Chris Niekel wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 10:43:34AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:13:44PM +0530, Ganesan R wrote:
> > > Or simply remove the -e option. builtin echo parses "\n" in bash as well as
> > > dash.
> Bash needs a shopt -s xpg_echo first, I did that in my package. I was
> still afraid to change too much.
That is not necessarily a bad attitude. ;-)
> > That isn't mandated by POSIX, though, and there are shells in Debian
> > that don't do that. I agree with Andreas: use printf instead.
> A sponsor already uploaded the package, but a next version will use printf.
Cool.
> Since printf is part of coreutils, and coreutils is essential, I don't
> even need an extra dependency, right?
Correct. (The situation in woody is identical: In woody printf is
part of shellutils, which was also essential.)
cu andreas
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