On Tuesday 02 June 2009 12:54:00 Bill Allombert wrote: [...] > > 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 ?
Yes, printf. Cheers, -- Raphael Geissert - Debian Maintainer www.debian.org - get.debian.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
