tags 512233 fixed-upstream
thanks
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 09:59:28PM +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> How to reproduce: set your terminal width to 81+ lines, then compare
> formatting in outputs of commands
>
> 'man dpkg'
>
> and
>
> 'zcat /usr/share/man/man1/dpkg.1.gz | man -l -'.
>
> Latter command doesn't use
> all terminal width despite output is tty and other interactive command
> (e.g. search) work.
You're right, this doesn't really make sense. Fixed upstream for man-db
2.5.4:
Sun Jan 18 23:27:11 GMT 2009 Colin Watson <cjwat...@debian.org>
* lib/linelength.c (get_line_length): Line length is a property of
output, not input, so only check whether standard output is a
terminal, not also standard input (Debian bug #512233).
Regards,
--
Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org]
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
