GNU bug report logs - #24926
ls-quotes: ls output has been made ugly

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Michael Schwager <mike <at> schwager.com>

Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 16:36:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Michael Schwager <mike <at> schwager.com>
To: 24926 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24926: ls output has been made ugly
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2016 16:27:11 -0600

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Can anyone point me to the mailing list discussion where this originally
was decided?

There are legion of coreutils users out there who are dumbfounded and who
detest this change; I see that Debian has reverted it. However, I (and
Debian) could be wrong. I'd like to see the original discussion which will
hopefully point to the well-founded reasoning for its implementation (eg,
POSIX requires it, a tremendous clamour from the user community, what have
you).

I have searched in the mailing list but not found the original point of the
decision; I don't have the proper expression foo to return it...

-- 
-Mike Schwager

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