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Bug#796048: marked as done (apt: color detection for moo moo)

Your message dated Sat, 22 Aug 2015 16:48:01 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#796048: apt: color detection for moo moo
has caused the Debian Bug report #796048,
regarding apt: color detection for moo moo
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Package: apt
Version: 1.0.9.10
Severity: wishlist


The image for "apt moo moo" supports color, but uses it only if an undocumented
setting, APT::Moo::Color, is set to true.  That's not discoverable without
source-diving.

Please default it to isatty(1).  This way, people running apt interactively
will get colored output, without risking garbage if redirections are
involved.

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On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:01:12PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
> The image for "apt moo moo" supports color, but uses it only if an undocumented
> setting, APT::Moo::Color, is set to true.  That's not discoverable without
> source-diving.

Well, the entire 'moo' feature is only dicoverable by reading the source
(or by listening to propaganda talks from the deity team).

Also, the 'colored moo moo' cow is not the same as the 'plain moo moo'
cow¹, so by enabling this option by default we break an existing
interface and as you might know the deity team is very relucent about
this (the by now expected xkcd reference: https://xkcd.com/1172/ ).

For 'apt' that might change at some point, as this binary is documented
to break stuff left and right and I have plans (muhhhaahaha), but I have
signed an NDA with supercow to not spill the beans to early…

I am therefore closing this bug as wontfix, to hide it, so that 'moo'
isn't suddently discovered from reading the buglist (even through the
set of people reading it might be equivalent with the set of people
reading the source…).


Best regards

David Kalnischkies

¹ the udder is missing as I couldn't come up with a sensible color for
it.  Also, there is a lot of grass on the ground, while plain seems to
… I have no idea what that is supposed to be which is why I opted for
grass for 'my' derived cow.

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