On 10/01/15 08:59, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2015-01-10 07:05:48 +1100, Riley Baird wrote: >>> Otherwise shouldn't utilities (such as "dpkg -s") provide a >>> configurable way to limit the output of the "Description:" field? >> >> You can pipe the output to "head" or "tail" to sort of achieve what you >> want to. > > Obviously not. It may be possible with something like sed or perl, > but this may not be future-proof, and breakage due to changes in > the dpkg output may remain unnoticed. And doing that automatically > would need to write a dpkg wrapper, which could break dpkg in other > contexts.
True. I honestly think that this is such an insignificant problem that updating the sed or perl script every so often wouldn't be that much of a problem. If it interests you, you could always right a patch for dpkg; it doesn't seem that it would be that hard to do so, and I don't see any reason why the patch would be refused. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54b06962.8000...@bitmessage.ch
