Package: dpkg Version: 1.21.9 Severity: wishlist Dear Guillem,
it would be nice if there would be a setting (or environment variable or interactive option) to use a different tool than "diff" to view conffile differences. This would add the possibility to e.g. use colorized diffs as provided by tools like colordiff, "dwdiff -c" or icdiff which allows to review changes more easily (like the adduser.conf changes which came in today). P.S.: I've looked and searched through the man pages of dpkg(1) and dpkg.cfg(5) but found no such setting, hence the wishlist bug report. -- Package-specific info:
-- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental') merged-usr: no Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.18.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.8-5 ii libc6 2.34-4 ii liblzma5 5.2.5-2.1 ii libselinux1 3.4-1+b1 ii tar 1.34+dfsg-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.11.dfsg-4.1 dpkg recommends no packages. Versions of packages dpkg suggests: ii apt 2.5.2 ii debsig-verify 0.25+b2 -- no debconf information
