Bug 91990 - xdg-email: bashism: relies on bash's echo in run_thunderbird()
Summary: xdg-email: bashism: relies on bash's echo in run_thunderbird()
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Portland
Classification: Unclassified
Component: xdg-utils (show other bugs)
Version: 1.1.0 rc3
Hardware: Other All
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Assignee: Portland Bugs
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Reported: 2015-09-13 08:15 UTC by Per Olofsson
Modified: 2015-09-16 15:09 UTC (History)
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fix-bashism-use-of-echo.patch (1.53 KB, text/plain)
2015-09-13 08:15 UTC, Per Olofsson 		Details
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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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