Package: coreutils Version: 8.28-1 Severity: minor Hi! dircolors make ls show broken symlinks the same way it shows compressed files, which are the most widespread type of files we tend to have.
Technically, the string is 40;01;31 vs 01;31 but that has an effect only for people whose background color is not black, which despite heretic defaults in some desktop environments is still the most widespread color scheme. There's no need for this clash as dircolors utilizes only a few combinations even among basic 16 non-backgrounded colors: 00;33 [40]pipe 00;36 audio 01;31 [40]broken symlink, compressed 01;32 exec 01;33 [40]device node 01;34 directory 01;35 socket, door, image, video 01;36 symlink backgrounded: 41;30 cap 41;37 setuid 42;30 dir +t,o+w 43;30 setgid 44;37 dir +t,o-w Thus, what about eg 00;31 (red) for broken symlink? While we're at it, what about disambiguating sockets as well? Meow! -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (150, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-rc7-debug-00137-g13f8e1b5cc83 (SMP w/6 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.52-3+b1 ii libattr1 1:2.4.47-2+b2 ii libc6 2.26-3 ii libselinux1 2.7-2 coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
