Control: forcemerge 313204 -1 On Mon, 2022-08-22 at 11:41:19 +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.21.9 > Severity: wishlist
> it would be nice if there would be a setting (or environment variable or > interactive option) to use a different tool than "diff" to view conffile > differences. > > This would add the possibility to e.g. use colorized diffs as provided > by tools like colordiff, "dwdiff -c" or icdiff which allows to review > changes more easily (like the adduser.conf changes which came in today). > > P.S.: I've looked and searched through the man pages of dpkg(1) and > dpkg.cfg(5) but found no such setting, hence the wishlist bug report. Yeah, I've been meaning to add this, I just need to define a syntax so that the arguments can be specified independently of the tool. Merging with the older requests. Thanks, Guillem
