Pierre Habouzit <madco...@madism.org> writes: > First of all, non-unified diffs are called "context diffs"
Not necessarily. I've been using the term to reply to *any* diff output format that isn't unified-diff format. From my perspective, there is the de facto standard of unified-diff format, used by the vast majority for patch data interchange; and there is the vanishing minority of any other patch format, which should be deprecated. > I concur with Charles that it's a dpkg-dev bug, I don't think his > patch is valid though. I'm unsure if it needed all that trolling, and > that a minor bug on dpkg-dev asking for non-unified diffs support is > in order. Rather, for specifically “context diff” format. +1 to that suggestion; I'm fine with tools accepting it, but it should be strongly deprecated (by social, not technical, means). -- \ “The industrial system is profoundly dependent on commercial | `\ television and could not exist in its present form without it.” | _o__) —John Kenneth Galbraith, _The New Industrial State_, 1967 | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
