Debian Bug report logs - #610411
dpkg: make 'dpkg -W' synonymous with 'dpkg-query -W'?

Package: dpkg; Maintainer for dpkg is Dpkg Developers <debian-dpkg@lists.debian.org>; Source for dpkg is src:dpkg (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:51:05 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version dpkg/1.15.8.7

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Bug#610411; Package dpkg. (Tue, 18 Jan 2011 11:51:08 GMT) (full text, mbox, link).

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Package: dpkg
Version: 1.15.8.7
Severity: wishlist

I find the output of 'dpkg-query -W' rather more convenient than that of
'dpkg -l' in many cases: in particular, it doesn't truncate long version
numbers.  It's slightly cumbersome to have to type dpkg-query to get it.
Would it be possible to pass that option through from dpkg, like most of
the other dpkg-query options?

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]

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Debian Bug report logs - #610411 dpkg: make 'dpkg -W' synonymous with 'dpkg-query -W'?

Debian Bug report logs - #610411
dpkg: make 'dpkg -W' synonymous with 'dpkg-query -W'?