Bug#507241: lintian: --color not working any more

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 11:39 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:
> In 2.1.0 the friendly --color option doesn't work any more.
> 
> If I change the following:
[define %default_colors before creating the $GLOBAL output object]
> I get --colors=always back.

That looks "obviously correct" to me; thanks.

> - --colors=auto still fails because $self->stdout gets changed from
> \*STDOUT to \*::OUTPUT_PIPE somewhere and therefore _do_color returns false.
> Unfortunately I have no idea where/how this happens ...

I'm guessing you're calling lintian with "-i"? If so, that's because the
extra output is generated by piping lintian's output to lintian-info,
which now causes the colour to be disabled when using "auto".

I'm looking at a patch that makes lintian able to generate the output
itself, thus allowing the combination of -i and --color=auto to work
again (and will post it to the list for review once I've done some more
testing).

Regards,

Adam