Control: tags -1 + wontfix moreinfo Hello Marek Onuszko,
Please see my comments inline below. On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:00:55AM +0200, Marek Onuszko wrote: > Package: util-linux > Version: 2.32.1-0.1 > Severity: wishlist > > Dear Maintainer, > > *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate *** > > * What led up to the situation? > > I searched the internet for a way to format MarkDown tables in vim. > I found a StackOverflow thread recommending to use the new version > of 'column' with its -o option (output separator). Unfortuantely, > even Buster still contains the outdated version. > > While vim may have alternative ways like the tabular plugin, other > programs do not (for example the kakoune editor). > > links that may be helpful: > > The Launchpad page blames debian for incorrectly identifying the > bsdutils version of column as the newer one: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1705437 Please note the differente between bsdutils (from src:util-linux) and bsdmainutils (from src:bsdmainutils). There are two different sources implementing two different versions of the same utililies with the same name. > > The -o option was implemented 5 years ago: > > https://gitlab.apertis.org/packaging/util-linux/commit/47bd8ddc5b72739cf30f287ce84c984eb05b124e This is the util-linux version which is not used. If you want the bsdutils to provide (util-linux version of) the tools you need to convince the bsdmainutils maintainers that they should stop shipping theirs, since we can't have file collisions between different packages (ie. debian policy forbids two different packages to provide the same file). Until you've convinced the bsdmainutils maintainers we should change to the util-linux versions, there's nothing that can be done on the util-linux/bsdutils side - thus the wontfix tag. Regards, Andreas Henriksson
