Invalid colour specification for setting diff_cmd (diff) in /etc/colordiffrc

[Manuel López-Ibáñez]

Ubuntu 16.04

The default /etc/colordiffrc produces this warning:

Invalid colour specification for setting diff_cmd (diff) in /etc/colordiffrc

The key is to comment out the line for diff_cmd:

# Example colordiffrc file for dark backgrounds
#
# Set banner=no to suppress authorship info at top of
# colordiff output
banner=no
# By default, when colordiff output is being redirected
# to a file, it detects this and does not colour-highlight
# To make the patch file *include* colours, change the option
# below to 'yes'
color_patches=no
# Sometimes it can be useful to specify which diff command to
# use: that can be specified here
#diff_cmd=diff
#
# available colours are: white, yellow, green, blue,
# cyan, red, magenta, black,
# darkwhite, darkyellow, darkgreen,
# darkblue, darkcyan, darkred,
# darkmagenta, darkblack
#
# Can also specify 'none', 'normal' or 'off' which are all
# aliases for the same thing, namely "don't colour highlight
# this, use the default output colour"
#
plain=off
newtext=darkgreen
oldtext=darkred
diffstuff=darkcyan
cvsstuff=cyan

[Manuel López-Ibáñez (manuellopezibanez)]

launchpad.net does not update the package value if edited manually instead of via "Choose..."? Oh, well...

[davee (davee-sungate)]

I can not reproduce this bug with the version of colordiff you claim you are using.

As far as I can see the error message you have posted can only occur if /etc/colordiffrc has come from a *newer* version of colordiff than your colordiff script itself. In fact, the error you see must have been generated by a version of colordiff older than 1.0.11, since support for diff_cmd was introduced in that release.

Please ensure that you are calling the correct colordiff, i.e. check path (etc.) for multiple installations.

[davee (davee-sungate)]

As per my comment from last year above, I don't believe this is a bug. Setting report as INCOMPLETE.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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