On 2025-11-08, Kraus, Sebastian <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Mike: > > you are a "victim" of this patch: > > apt (2.9.35) unstable; urgency=medium > > * Respect custom LESS/MORE/LV variables (LP: #2103921) > * solver3: Correctly deb822-escape error message in evaluation report > (LP: #2104276) > * pager: Also set SMK in LESS, fix LV=C to be LV=-c (LP: #2104280) > > -- Julian Andres Klode <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:52:21 +0100 > > > See also https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/2103921 . > > > In order to avoid the issue, you may use > > apt-cache show <package_name> > > instead, if possible within your workflow.
So "bug" doesn't appear on fresh installs like mine without explicit user action, which is why I wasn't seeing it. > > Regards > Sebastian > > ________________________ > > Dipl.-Chem. > Sebastian Kraus > > Email: [email protected] > > ________________________________________ > From: Mike McClain <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, November 8, 2025 04:59 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: apt show escape characters > > On Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 10:10:57AM -0500, Greg Wooledge wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 08:37:31 -0600, Mike McClain wrote: >> > Since installing trixie apt show ... is displaying 'ESC[1m', 'ESC[0m' >> > and the like. What might be the difference in my bookworm install to >> > the new trixie install that would cause that? >> >> You've probably got the LESS variable set in your environment. I do >> too. I get that too. >> >> If I run >> >> (unset LESS; apt show bash) >> >> or >> >> env -u LESS apt show bash >> >> then the raw control characters are passed through directly to the >> terminal as intended. > > I've had 'export LESS=-aCMsi' in the environment for several versions > of Debian. I currently have both bookworm and trixie installs both > with the same environment settings, atleast that I set. > The bookworm install doesn't show those escapes as text yet in trixie > 'apt show ...' does. > Suggestions where I might look to see what's causing this and correct it? > > Thanks, > Mike > -- > Enjoy yourself. It is later than you think. >
