Hi!
On Mon, 2016-05-16 at 20:01:13 -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.18.7
> Severity: minor
> File: /usr/bin/dpkg-query
> The dpkg-query manpage says:
>
> > It contains the abbreviated package status, such as “ii” (since dpkg
> > 1.16.2).
>
> That turns out to be misleading, since the actual variable contains a
> trailing space:
>
> $ dpkg-query --showformat='${db:Status-Abbrev}${Package}\n' --show dpkg anjuta
> un anjuta
> ii dpkg
Actually, the behavior is correct, what might be misleading is the
documentation. The abbreviated status contains three characters, one
for the desired action, one of the package status and one for the
error flag, which should usually be empty. Otherwise it would be ‘R’.
I'll update the documentation to make that more clear.
> I think by now removing the space would be an API breakage (although
> apparently nobody is using this[1]), so I think the thing to do now is
> to fix the man page.
Right, but not because the behavior is wrong. :)
Thanks,
Guillem
