On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 01:38:37AM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > > - "-n" is so wide used, that other solution will create more bugs! > > > > Anyway, no user should use "echo -n" to print "-n" (POSIX > > discurages it), so again, it is a non-problem. > > The idea is to explicitely discourage its usage, not to forbid it.
It does not make sense to policy to discourage "echo -n". Policy could deprecate it in favor of something else, but I do not see any alternative mentioned in this bug report, and otherwise discouraging "echo -n" would amount to discourage shell scripts to display lines that does not end by a newline, while Policy 9.4. mandates that init scripts display "Starting foo" without an ending newline. Furthermore, adding vague recommendation to policy is a waste of resource. So, is there an alternative to "echo -n" that you would like to recommends, and are you willing to do the job to make sure that all "Debian sh"-compliant shells in Debian support it ? Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
