Package: bash Version: 5.0-4ubuntu1 Severity: minor Tags: a11y Dear Maintainer,
It is now 2020 and colors on a terminal are generally very well supported. That colors are not enabled by default does not make sense to me. When a terminal does not support colors, I've rarely, if ever, had that incorrectly detected. The Debian Wiki for [BashColors](https://wiki.debian.org/BashColors) says "Its output can be colorized to increase human readability." However, that seems to go against the text in `/etc/skel/.bashrc` that states colors are "turned off by default to not distract the user". Frankly, imho, the reasoning in the `.bashrc` file does not make sense, nor does it to all of the people that have commented on the Stack Exchange post referenced on the Wiki (the title, and thus URL, has been changed and thus the link in the wiki is broken): https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/329581/why-is-debians-default-bash-shell-colorless It looks to me like the Debian package is where the offending `.bashrc` is defined and thus copied to many other systems. It is my opinion that the color handling section of `.bashrc` should be rewritten. There is already some confusion about `force_color_prompt` because it does not *force* colors in all cases. I think a more appropriate variable/setting would be something like `colorless_prompt` or `force_colorless_prompt` for those that prefer bash to be colorless. Thank you for considering this request. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers eoan-updates APT policy: (500, 'eoan-updates'), (500, 'eoan-security'), (500, 'eoan'), (100, 'eoan-backports') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.3.0-40-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages bash depends on: ii base-files 10.2ubuntu7 ii debianutils 4.8.6.3 ii libc6 2.30-0ubuntu2 ii libtinfo6 6.1+20190803-1ubuntu1 Versions of packages bash recommends: ii bash-completion 1:2.9-1ubuntu1 Versions of packages bash suggests: pn bash-doc <none> -- Configuration Files: /etc/skel/.bashrc changed [not included] -- no debconf information
