Bug#644285: Re: Bug#644285: lsb-base: Disabled escape sequences

Hi Mats,

Le 07.03.2012 14:25, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit :
> 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.

After one month and a half without more info from you on this bug: this
is a ping.

Do you intend to provide more info to this bug ? Without input, it will
certainly not get fixed, either way.

Cheers,

OdyX

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