Hi!

On Wed, 2019-06-26 at 08:24:10 +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.19.7

> Obviously
> 
>       export DPKG_PAGER=""
> 
> doesn't work as expected (overriding $PAGER, as promised by the man page).

Hmm, I guess I could change it to treat "" the same as "cat", even
though that'd be a behavior change now, so meh.

> The workaround (export DPKG_PAGER=cat) might affect color mode (but I haven't
> seen any colors in dpkg's output, anyway).

It does not affect the color support, because the value "cat" is
special-cased, and will disable the pager. I see this is not really
properly documented, will fix that.

Thanks,
Guillem

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