Package: ucf Version: 3.0036 Severity: normal Hi. Currently diffs generated by ucf produce TABs, which can make diffs render improperly. This is especially an issue with side-by-side diffs, where clobbered spacing makes the output unreadable. I'm attaching a patch that asks diff to expand TABs into spaces to fix this. For whiptail-based debconf this is necessary, but not sufficient: see
http://bugs.debian.org/189026
>From 65ee66858dfdddff104c914b408ba42190d304ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dima Kogan <dko...@debian.org> Date: Sun, 14 May 2017 22:00:29 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] diffs use spaces instead of tabs They are thus rendered faithfully on all terminals. whiptail-based debconf dialogs have a second bug that needs to be fixed to make it work properly. I'm about to file it --- ucf | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/ucf b/ucf index cbbeada..cccb686 100755 --- a/ucf +++ b/ucf @@ -1011,11 +1011,11 @@ else exit 0; ;; diff|D|d) - DIFF="$(run_diff diff -uBbw "$dest_file" "$new_file")" + DIFF="$(run_diff diff -uBbwt "$dest_file" "$new_file")" show_diff "$DIFF" ;; sdiff|S|s) - DIFF="$(run_diff sdiff -BbW "$dest_file" "$new_file")" + DIFF="$(run_diff sdiff -BbWt "$dest_file" "$new_file")" show_diff "$DIFF" ;; diff_threeway|3|t|T) -- 2.11.0
-- System Information: Debian Release: 9.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.6.1 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages ucf depends on: ii coreutils 8.26-3 ii debconf 1.5.60 ucf recommends no packages. ucf suggests no packages. -- debconf information: * ucf/show_diff: * ucf/changeprompt: install_new * ucf/changeprompt_threeway: keep_current ucf/title: * ucf/conflicts_found:
