From b8e3a2732413b6f9e6ce5a2c7e25d58a967ed1e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lyndon Brown <jnqnfe@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2020 02:42:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] echo: fix problem with error printing

lack of stderr directed output for the `E:` prefix meant that it would
not appear alongside the message in some use cases

Gbp-Dch: Short
Closes: #952878
---
 functions/echo.sh | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/functions/echo.sh b/functions/echo.sh
index 6ec00f867..4ad1994fb 100755
--- a/functions/echo.sh
+++ b/functions/echo.sh
@@ -52,9 +52,9 @@ Echo_error ()
 
 	if [ "${_COLOR}" = "false" ]
 	then
-		printf "E:"
+		printf "E:" >&2
 	else
-		printf "${RED}E${NO_COLOR}:"
+		printf "${RED}E${NO_COLOR}:" >&2
 	fi
 
 	printf " ${STRING}\n" "${@}" >&2