Debian Bug report logs - #380332
dpkg: [CONFFILE] diff command should be configurable

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: dpkg: [CONFFILE] diff command should be configurable

Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 12:53:45 +0200

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.13.22
Severity: wishlist

The diff command used to show conffile diffs should be configurable,
at least in dpkg.cfg. For instance, one should be able to choose
colordiff to get colorized diffs.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.3-20060705
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages dpkg depends on:
ii  coreutils                     5.97-1     The GNU core utilities
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-15   GNU C Library: Shared libraries

dpkg recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 380332@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Adam D. Barratt" <debian-bts@adam-barratt.org.uk>

To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>, 380332@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#380332: dpkg: [CONFFILE] diff command should be configurable

Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:14:34 +0100

merge 268154 380332
thanks

On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 12:53 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.13.22
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> The diff command used to show conffile diffs should be configurable,
> at least in dpkg.cfg. For instance, one should be able to choose
> colordiff to get colorized diffs.

This appears to be another request as per #268154 and the seven others
currently merged with it. Adding this report to the group... :)

Regards,

Adam

Message #17 received at 380332@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>

To: "Adam D. Barratt" <debian-bts@adam-barratt.org.uk>

Cc: 380332@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#380332: dpkg: [CONFFILE] diff command should be configurable

Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 20:43:59 +0200

On 2006-07-29 19:14:34 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> This appears to be another request as per #268154 and the seven others
> currently merged with it. Adding this report to the group... :)

I'm not sure it should be in the same group as #268154. The other
wishlist bugs are about 3-way diff and merging, whereas mine is
just about a different 2-way diff output.

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Message #22 received at 380332@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "Adam D. Barratt" <debian-bts@adam-barratt.org.uk>

To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>

Cc: 380332@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#380332: dpkg: [CONFFILE] diff command should be configurable

Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 19:51:27 +0100

unmerge 380332
thanks

On Sat, 2006-07-29 at 20:43 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2006-07-29 19:14:34 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > This appears to be another request as per #268154 and the seven others
> > currently merged with it. Adding this report to the group... :)
> 
> I'm not sure it should be in the same group as #268154. The other
> wishlist bugs are about 3-way diff and merging, whereas mine is
> just about a different 2-way diff output.

A reasonable point :) I'll unmerge them and see if anyone else thinks
differently.

Cheers,

Adam

Message #33 received at 380332@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marcel Partap <mpartap@gmx.net>

To: 380332@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#380332: dpkg: [CONFFILE] diff command should be configurable

Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 14:23:05 +0200

Even in 2015, it would still be very nice to be able to use f.e.
colordiff or imediff2 to investigate changed config files.

Message #38 received at 380332@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: "T. Joseph Carter" <carter.tjoseph@gmail.com>

To: 380332@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Also interested in this one

Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 15:48:10 -0700

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Upgrading my stretch box to buster, I got a lot of these familiar prompts,
and one very strange one from samba-common that used whiptail (debconf?)
and didn't even use a unified or context diff or set DPKG_CONFFILE_OLD/NEW.
(I should probably investigate what it's doing and file a bug about
that—NOT expected behavior!)

But samba's behavior got me thinking that it ought to be possible to change
the diff options or the pager or both. Seems that the pager is
configurable, so colordiff can be inserted there. But if you have a
preference for a different kind of diff, that's still not an option. Seems
I'd kinda like the option to throw the old and new conffile at vimdiff so
that I could quickly make whatever changes I wanted to, since that's what I
usually do anyway. But it seems the diff-side of things is all hard-coded
for the time being.

Essentially, "subscribe", along with the added thought that someone might
want to be able to use a diff-merge tool there rather than just a diff tool.

Joseph

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