On 2015-01-20 11:59:45 +0100, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jan 2015, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > I don't even see how it can work. Perhaps you need to explain. > > *sigh*… > > • Take output of 「apt-cache show texlive-latex-extra」 > • Replace all newlines with \x01 > • Replace all “\x01\x20” with just a space (0x20) > • Replace all remaining \x01 back to newlines > > ⇒ this ensures all fields are one line only > > • Sort that
This is broken. FYI, "apt-cache show" can return several packages, and they are mixed up. > • Display it with less, telling less to please not wrap lines This is *not* what I asked. I've complained on the long description only. The other fields like "Depends:" are still needed, without having them to be truncated by "less". This shows that any attempt to write a wrapper will fail at some point, and the real solution would be either to limit the length of the extended description or to have an option in the tools to limit the length of the output of the extended description. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
