Control: reopen -1
Control: retitle -1 coreutils: "ls -bF" has inconsistent quoting and does not 
behave as documented
Control: found -1 9.7-1

This bug is still not fixed.

Note that the reason given for the quoting of "=" was:

  The reason \= is quoted with -bF is to distinguish socket names
  that end in =.

in <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=911572#10>.

But
  * This is not what is documented in the manual ("Quote nongraphic
    characters in file names using alphabetic and octal backslash
    sequences like those used in C.") and in the man page.
  * The "*" character, which is used for executables (* at the end),
    is not quoted. So, even if there were a reason to quote characters
    added by "-F", this is not the case.

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