Bug#1000657: apt: Use short options for cmp

[Walter Lozano <walter.lozano@collabora.com>]

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:

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-- (/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) --


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-- 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

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