On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 20:04 +0000, Steve Langasek wrote: > While it may seem obvious that we would want diffstat to use the > $COLUMNS value from the environment, this change is a behavior change > for anyone running diffstat in a terminal window that's not 80 columns > wide, which may have unexpected side effects for tools that invoke > diffstat. So I think it's better to defer this change until after the > hardy release. > > In the meantime, perhaps you could consider getting this change > accepted into the Debian package, so that it will flow into intrepid > automatically once the archive unfreezes? Also, you may want to > consider whether the decision to honor the $COLUMNS value should be > conditional on whether stdout points at a terminal - this is something > that packages like, e.g., dpkg do, to good effect.
I have submitted it upstream for consideration, and I can look into getting it into Debian. Not sure what that would entail precisely, but I can look at it and see what I can do with it. Also you brought up a great point there about considering what stdout is. I will add that to my patch shortly. Thanks! -- Michael B. Trausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] home: 404-592-5746, 1 www.trausch.us cell: 678-522-7934 im: [EMAIL PROTECTED], jabber Ubuntu Unofficial Backports Project: http://backports.trausch.us/ ** Attachment added: "unnamed" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13003980/unnamed -- diffstat does not honor COLUMNS environment variable https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/209537 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
