On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 00:47:47 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 00:25:00 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2014-01-04 00:12:57 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > > The issue I was already aware of related to --list, is that the code > > > counting the needed columns does not perform the same filters as the > > > actual listing code, so this can happen in several scenarios. > > > > > > In your case, given that you are just using «dpkg -l», I'd assume to > > > see selections present in your system? Try doing «dpkg -l *» and you > > > might see the culprit package. > > > > The culprit is: libghc-extensible-exceptions-dev-0.1.1.4-255a3 > > > > It is actually a virtual package, and the cause of the bug may be the > > > > Provides: libghc-extensible-exceptions-dev-0.1.1.4-255a3 > > > > line of libghc-extensible-exceptions-dev, which is one of the packages > > that have been installed. > > Ah, yes virtual packages can generate those increased column artifacts, > I'll do some non-intrusive changes to at least always handle the > «dpkg -l» case correctly, and leave the pattern matching case alone > for now.
Actually, I just noticed I can trivially fix this for all cases, by splitting the matching and the printing, so I'll do that for 1.17.6. Thanks, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
