Bug#1000657: apt: Use short options for cmp
Package: apt
Version: 2.0.6
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I think a nice improvement for apt is to use short options for cmp. Currently,
in general apt scripts used short options, but this is not consistent. Also, in
this way scripts will be friendlier to different implementations of cmp, like
busybox one.
I have submitted a MR which can be found in:
https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/merge_requests/203
Thanks in advance,
Walter
-- Package-specific info:
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --
-- (no /etc/apt/preferences.d/* present) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list.distUpgrade present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list.save present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/katharaframework-ubuntu-kathara-eoan.list present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/katharaframework-ubuntu-kathara-eoan.list.distUpgrade present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/oem-somerville-three-eyed-raven-meta.list present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/teams.list present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/teamviewer.list present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/teamviewer.list.distUpgrade present, but not submitted) --
-- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/teamviewer.list.dpkg-old present, but not submitted) --
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers focal-updates
APT policy: (500, 'focal-updates'), (500, 'focal-security'), (500, 'focal'), (100, 'focal-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 5.11.0-40-generic (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii adduser 3.118ubuntu2
ii gpgv 2.2.19-3ubuntu2.1
ii libapt-pkg6.0 2.0.6
ii libc6 2.31-0ubuntu9.2
ii libgcc-s1 10.3.0-1ubuntu1~20.04
ii libgnutls30 3.6.13-2ubuntu1.6
ii libseccomp2 2.5.1-1ubuntu1~20.04.1
ii libstdc++6 10.3.0-1ubuntu1~20.04
ii libsystemd0 245.4-4ubuntu3.13
ii ubuntu-keyring 2020.02.11.4
Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20210119~20.04.2
Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn apt-doc <none>
ii aptitude 0.8.12-1ubuntu4
ii dpkg-dev 1.19.7ubuntu3
ii gnupg 2.2.19-3ubuntu2.1
ii powermgmt-base 1.36
-- no debconf information
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