Package: dpkg Version: 1.9.19 Severity: normal Hello dpkg developers,
The way dpkg -l cut columns may generated wrong versions in bug reports: An example yellowpig% COLUMNS=80 dpkg -l libopenal0 | grep libopenal0 ii libopenal0 0.2001061600-2 OpenAL is a portable library for 3D spatiali So I have version 0.2001061600-2 ? Wrong: yellowpig% COLUMNS=130 dpkg -l libopenal0 | grep libopenal0 ii libopenal0 0.2001061600-2.1 OpenAL is a portable library for 3D spatialized audio. In fact I have version 0.2001061600-2.1 ! There is a similar problem in potato with proftpd, it loks like version 1.2.0pre10-2.0 yellowpig% COLUMNS=80 dpkg -l proftpd | grep proftpd ii proftpd 1.2.0pre10-2.0 Versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon But in fact I have yellowpig% COLUMNS=130 dpkg -l proftpd | grep proftpd ii proftpd 1.2.0pre10-2.0potato1 Versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon If you really want dpkg -l to cut important fields like package name or version number, please use a ">" terminator to make it clear it is not finished, like in i proftpd 1.2.0pre10-2.0>Versatile, virtual-hosting FTP daemon Kind regards, -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux yellowpig 2.2.19 #1 Tue Apr 24 20:02:21 CEST 2001 i686 Locale: LANG=french, LC_CTYPE=french Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-1 The GNU stdc++ library -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> FHS 5.3: As of the date of this release of the standard, system crash were not supported under Linux.
