On 16 May 2016 at 20:23, Guillem Jover <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Ah, that would be great indeed. I had no idea there was an error flag. I suppose others don't either. > >> 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. :) :) -- Saludos, Felipe Sateler
