Bug#815690: aptitude: regression in version 0.7.6 wrt. cli search display through pipes

2016-02-25 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Control: tags -1 - moreinfo unreproducible + pending Hi, 2016-02-24 02:34 Norbert Kiesel: Hi Manuel, my goal was pretty simply: I wanted the output be nicely aligned even when it's piped. When I tried that using -F I thought that -F is just ignored. However, as you have shown that is not

Bug#815690: aptitude: regression in version 0.7.6 wrt. cli search display through pipes

2016-02-23 Thread Norbert Kiesel
Actually I started to like the perl post-processing, so I will simply close my bug report although I'm still not understanding why the width in the format does not work in piped context. For the record, here is my updated bash function I use to list new packages function new-packages {

Bug#815690: aptitude: regression in version 0.7.6 wrt. cli search display through pipes

2016-02-23 Thread Norbert Kiesel
Hi Manuel, my goal was pretty simply: I wanted the output be nicely aligned even when it's piped. When I tried that using -F I thought that -F is just ignored. However, as you have shown that is not the case. Nevertheless, it seems that setting the width of columns does not work as I expected:

Bug#815690: aptitude: regression in version 0.7.6 wrt. cli search display through pipes

2016-02-23 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo unreproducible Hi, 2016-02-23 18:34 nkiesel: Package: aptitude Version: 0.7.6-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, version 0.7.6 changed the way output formatting is handled for the CLI version, and I consider that a regression. I use something like `aptitude

Bug#815690: aptitude: regression in version 0.7.6 wrt. cli search display through pipes

2016-02-23 Thread nkiesel
Package: aptitude Version: 0.7.6-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, version 0.7.6 changed the way output formatting is handled for the CLI version, and I consider that a regression. I use something like `aptitude search '~N' > t; less t`. This used to truncate the output, but aptitude honored