Package: devscripts
Version: 2.14.10
Severity: wishlist

Please warn against \x escape sequences for printf(1). bash's printf supports them, but dash's doesn't:

$ bash -c 'printf "\x42\n"'
B

$ dash -c 'printf "\x42\n"'
\x42

--
Jakub Wilk

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