Bug 91990

Summary: xdg-email: bashism: relies on bash's echo in run_thunderbird()
Product: Portland Reporter: Per Olofsson <pelle>
Component: xdg-utilsAssignee: Portland Bugs <portland-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: pelle
Version: 1.1.0 rc3   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
Whiteboard:
i915 platform: i915 features:
Attachments: fix-bashism-use-of-echo.patch

Description Per Olofsson 2015-09-13 08:15:29 UTC
Created attachment 118233 [details]
fix-bashism-use-of-echo.patch

xdg-email relies on bash's echo behaviour (specifically the -e option) in run_thunderbird(). It doesn't work with dash. The attached patch from Debian replaces the echo calls with /bin/echo which does support -e.

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