Bug#644285: lsb-base: Disabled escape sequences

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
> 
> It would be far superior to use
> 
>   /bin/echo -ne
> 
> as this restores to any script author the possibility of
> issueing structured messages using standard escape sequences
> like "\b\t".

On one hand, I understand the desire to have access to "powerful"
structured messages in init scripts. On the other hand, I see some value
in limiting what can be done to the display by init script messages. In
fact, I fail to see valid reasons to use structured messages in init
scripts and your bugreport doesn't show a real-world use case.

By the way, are there init scripts that got broken by this change ?

For now, I'm tempted to tag this bug as +wontfix but am open to get
convinced, hence +moreinfo.

Cheers,

OdyX

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