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Re: more on #92263, dpkg --list truncates package names



| Which side are you arguing on here? it's hard to tell.  Unix convention
| is that programs may behave differently if they're run on a terminal
| than on a pipe.
 
I'm saying that programmers occasionally make programs depend on 
isatty(), but the usual convention is not to, and in any case there
should be a way to turn it off (ala ls -1, ps -ww).

| This is a more complicated change, and not suitable for pre-release.

Ok.  I'm Looking forward to it, though. :)
 



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