[Bug 38889] Re: Aptitude losing larger strings on output

[Daniel Hartwig]

** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #445206
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=445206

** Also affects: aptitude via
   http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=445206
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       Status: Unknown

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Title:
  Aptitude losing larger strings on output

Status in aptitude:
  Unknown
Status in The Linux Mint Distribution:
  Confirmed
Status in “aptitude” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  If we do this command "aptitude search '~i'" for list all installed
  packages, aptitude print this list to standard output.

  Something like this:
  ii   mc-4.1.1-ubuntu                        This is Midnight Commander.
  ii   linux-image-2.6.16-ubuntu-generic-k8   This is a linux kernel.
  ii   screen-1.0                             This is VT-100 terminal.

  But if we redirect output to file "> file.txt" or piped "| less" or
  grepped "| grep linux-image" aptitude loose some strings!

  Something like this:
  ii   mc-4.1.1-ubuntu   This is Midnight Commander.
  ii   linux-image-2.6   This is a linux kernel.
  ii   screen-1.0        This is VT-100 terminal.

  And now we do not know what exact version of linux-image is installed.
  Aptitude loosing only larger strings. Possible solution is use program
  "screen" in large window and list in screen history, but we can not
  still use pipe or grep.

  PS: "dpkg --get-selections" working well and do not loosing larger
  strings and we can use pipe or grap also without problems. Is it
  possible fix aptitude and is this fix in planning?

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