Package: bash
Version: 3.1dfsg-9
Severity: normal
File: /etc/skel/.bashrc

The default /etc/skel/.bashrc contains these lines:

if [ "$TERM" != "dumb" ]; then
    eval "`dircolors -b`"
    alias ls='ls --color=auto'
    #alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=vertical'
    #alias vdir='ls --color=auto --format=long'
fi

However, dircolors already has logic to check whether the terminal
supports color, and it has a more comprehensive idea of what terminals
support color than 'anything but "dumb"'.  Thus, please remove the
test for [ "$TERM" != "dumb" ], and invoke dircolors unconditionally,
letting it figure out if it should do anything.  If you want to avoid
setting the ls alias when not on a terminal that supports color,
please consider something like this:

eval "`dircolors -b`"
if [ -z "$LS_COLORS" ]; then
    alias ls='ls --color=auto'
    #alias dir='ls --color=auto --format=vertical'
    #alias vdir='ls --color=auto --format=long'
fi

- Josh Triplett

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages bash depends on:
ii  base-files                4.0.3          Debian base system miscellaneous f
ii  debianutils               2.28.4         Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  libc6                     2.7-10         GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libncurses5               5.6+20080308-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand

Versions of packages bash recommends:
ii  bash-completion               20060301-4 programmable completion for the ba

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