I have tried upstream's patch, and it seems to work OK. Upstream is considering it for inclusion on next maintenance release (8.3). If it makes it in 8.3, there is a good chance we will have it on Lucid.
@jimav: there you go. If you want to check the patch, please grab it from the email thread I reference above. ** Changed in: coreutils Status: Incomplete => In Progress -- ls --color=always outputs possibly-extraneous ESC [ m on separate line, confusing less -FXR https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/494663 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs