[Portland-bugs] [Bug 91990] New: xdg-email: bashism: relies on bash's echo in run_thunderbird()

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91990

            Bug ID: 91990
           Summary: xdg-email: bashism: relies on bash's echo in
                    run_thunderbird()
           Product: Portland
           Version: 1.1.0 rc3
          Hardware: Other
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: xdg-utils
          Assignee: portland-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: pelle at debian.org

Created attachment 118233
  --> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=118233&action=edit
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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