For the record, I didn't get the earlier message on the workaround. I agree the bug is a duplcate of #686772, thank you.
--Dylan Thurston On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 09:24:05AM +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the colordiff package: > > #770720: colordiff: Fails to properly colorize wdiff output across line splits > > It has been closed by Colin Tuckley <[email protected]>. > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a > better one in a separate message then please contact Colin Tuckley > <[email protected]> by > replying to this email. > > > -- > 770720: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=770720 > Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact [email protected] with problems > Date: Sun, 03 May 2015 10:21:52 +0100 > From: Colin Tuckley <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: colordiff: Fails to properly colorize wdiff output across line > splits > User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 > Icedove/31.6.0 > > No further comments from submitter, so closing. > > -- > Colin Tuckley | +44(0)1223 830814 | PGP/GnuPG Key Id > Debian Developer | +44(0)7799 143369 | 0x38C9D903 > Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 10:33:01 -0500 > From: Dylan Thurston <[email protected]> > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[email protected]> > Subject: colordiff: Fails to properly colorize wdiff output across line > splits > X-Mailer: reportbug 6.6.0 > > Package: colordiff > Version: 1.0.13-1 > Severity: minor > > Dear Maintainer, > > colordiff sometimes fails to colorize the output from wdiff, > specifically when there is a line break in one of the two files. Here > is a sample: > > File a: > ---------------------------------------- > this is a test of colordiff > ---------------------------------------- > > File b: > ---------------------------------------- > this is an > exam of wdiff > ---------------------------------------- > > wdiff a b: > ---------------------------------------- > this is [-a test-] {+an > exam+} of [-colordiff-] {+wdiff+} > ---------------------------------------- > > wdiff a b | colordiff | cat (with escapes sanitized): > ---------------------------------------- > this is ^[[1;31m[-a test-]^[0;0m {+an^[[0;0m > exam+} of ^[[1;31m[-colordiff-]^[[0;0m ^[[1;34m{+wdiff+}^[[0;0m^[[0;0m > ---------------------------------------- > > Note that "an exam" is not colorized correctly. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: jessie/sid > APT prefers stable-updates > APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), > (500, 'stable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 3.17.0-rc5 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages colordiff depends on: > ii perl 5.20.1-2 > > colordiff recommends no packages. > > colordiff suggests no packages. > > -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
