On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 at 16:09, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:50:14 +0100 "Oliver M. Schode" > <oliver.sch...@online.de> wrote: > > Package: iproute2 > > Version: 6.13.0-1 > > Followup-For: Bug #1088739 > > > > If it's wont-fix I guess the bug might as well be closed, or at least > > denoted as it certainly isn't something we can't work around. That > said > > I find the request about as reasonable as it gets, nor are we talking > > about mere matters of taste. On black background, which I still think > > isn't too uncommon, the default is indeed unreadable. Nothing to argue > > about. Then speaking of workarounds, I've been making do with an > alias: > > ip='ip -c=never'. Obviously far from optimal, maybe I could play > around > > with (another) environment variable that is only to do with colors, > > those too are beginning to pile up. At least why it would have to be > > blue, instead of say bright red, which is perfectly legible, I do not > > quite understand. > > Today's upload of version 6.14.0-1 adds support for the widely used > NO_COLOR environment variable. > > I've sent some additional patches (to this bug report, and upstream) > which seem to improve the readability of coloured text in GNOME Terminal > and xterm with a dark background. Those haven't yet been applied > anywhere.
Very nice work, thanks for taking care of it! As soon as Steve/Dave merge that series in main-next I'll backport it
