Aptitude losing larger strings on output

[UbuPetr]

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?

[Adam Niedling (krychek)]

I'm using Intrepid now and the output of aptitude search '~i' looks like this:

i yelp - Help browser for GNOME 2
i zenity - Display graphical dialog boxes from shell
i zip - Archiver for .zip files
i zlib1g - compression library - runtime
i A zlib1g-dev - compression library - development

I tried to pipe it and it gave the same output.

[emorrp1 (emorrp1)]

This is still a problem in Jaunty (reported from Linux Mint Gloria, which is based on Jaunty). Steps to reproduce:

1) make the terminal more than the default 80 chars wide
2) compare the output of the following commands:
aptitude search firefox
aptitude search firefox | less
aptitude search firefox | grep trunk

[Boniek (boniek12p)]

karmic confirmed

[chemicalfan (mike-lumsden)]

Is this still a valid bug? Does it affect any of the currently supported released (Maya, Nadia, Petra)?

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Upstream bug fixed on 2016-02-21
Fixed in version 0.7.6-1
Verified using Ubuntu 18.04, aptitude 0.8.10-6 and upstream example
Marking "Fix Released" to close