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and subject line Re: many commands append trailing blanks
has caused the Debian Bug report #497727,
regarding aptitude: Trailing EOL whitespace in listing -- aptitude search ~c
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Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.11-1+b2
Severity: minor
There seems to appear trailing EOL whitespace in call:
$ aptitude search ~c | head | cat -A
c arj - archiver for .arj files
$
c ark - archive utility for KDE 4
$
c audtty - ncurses based frontend to audacious
$
c binfmt-support - Support for extra binary formats
$
c bluez-audio - Transitional package
$
...
Please remove excess whitespace.
-- Package-specific info:
aptitude 0.4.11.11 compiled at Aug 3 2009 16:22:21
Compiler: g++ 4.3.3
Compiled against:
apt version 4.8.0
NCurses version 5.7
libsigc++ version: 2.0.18
Ept support enabled.
Current library versions:
NCurses version: ncurses 5.7.20090803
cwidget version: 0.5.13
Apt version: 4.8.1
linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff4c1ff000)
libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6.so.4.8
(0x00007f86c5817000)
libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (0x00007f86c55c6000)
libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f86c53c0000)
libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f86c50ef000)
libept.so.0 => /usr/lib/libept.so.0 (0x00007f86c4e76000)
libxapian.so.15 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.15 (0x00007f86c4b1f000)
libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f86c4908000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f86c46ec000)
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007f86c43db000)
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f86c4159000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f86c3f43000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f86c3bef000)
libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x00007f86c39ec000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f86c37e8000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f86c5b03000)
Terminal: screen
$DISPLAY is set.
`which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude
aptitude version information:
aptitude linkage:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_DK.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DK.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6. 0.7.24 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.10.1-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcwidget3 0.5.13-1 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libept0 0.5.29 High-level library for managing De
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-3 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.7+20090803-2 shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.18-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.4.2-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libxapian15 1.0.16-3 Search engine library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-do 0.4.11.11-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter
ii libparse-debianchangelog-per 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output
Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii debtags 1.7.9+b2 Enables support for package tags
ii tasksel 2.80 Tool for selecting tasks for insta
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
2016-03-10 16:43 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo:
Control: tags -1 + wontfix
Hi,
2008-09-02 21:57 [email protected]:
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.11.9-1
Severity: wishlist
Many commands append trailing blanks.
# aptitude search bash|grep -c ' $'
2
This is because of virtual packages with empty descriptions, but it
doesn't always happen.
$ aptitude search base-files |grep -c ' $'
0
# aptitude why desktop-file-utils|grep -c ' $'
3
This one produces zero now.
No big deal to some, but for full bladder control do fix one day.
$ dpkg -l bash\*|grep -c ' $'
0
$ apt-cache search apt|grep -c ' $'
0
I don't understand what's the harm in having some extra blanks, why it
would be of any benefit to remove them, or why we should spend time
tracking those cases that produce extra blanks.
Part of the reason why aptitude works in this way it's because it uses
common code with the curses interface and e.g. tries to make columns
even in command-line mode (although if piped/redirected since recently,
does --disable-columns). In some cases if the columns are blank or
there are similar conditions, these effects of having extra blanks are
produced.
Sharing code is a bigger benefit than trying to not have some extra
blanks, even if that was a worthwhile goal to pursue.
So +wontfix.
Closing now.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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