On Mon, 2004-06-14 at 13:25 +0200, Hervé Eychenne wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 09:11:00AM +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 16:08 +0200, Hervé Eychenne wrote:
> > > $ dpkg -l
> > > truncates information to the terminal width. So be it.
> > >
> > > But
> > > $ dpkg -l | cat
> > > still truncates information, which is clearly wrong.
> > >
> > > Note:
> > > $ ps | cat
> > > has the right kind of expected behavior instead.
> > >
> > Yeah, this is an *old* bug ... there's no need to file it again.
>
> Oh yes, sorry.
> But I cannot understand the arguments used by some Debian developpers
> ("use COLUMN environment, dpkg-query") in this bug thread, that seem to
> have been invented just to avoid simply fixing this.
>
It's somewhere near the middle of my personal TODO list, because it
annoys the crap out of me. It'll be post-sarge though, because changing
an external interface (no matter how poor) right before a release is
bad.
> And if it is _that_ old, I cannot understand why it is still not
> fixed! Especially considering that the patch would be quite small...
> Do you want me to write this patch?
>
There is already a patch in the BTS, I believe.
Scott
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