Ubuntu’s rmadison should have wider column defaults

[chastell]

Binary package hint: devscripts

It seems the minimal column widths in rmadison’s output are fixed. The version column has a width of 10 characters (plus padding), the repository column 13 (plus padding). For Ubuntu these two columns should be wider (while the package name column width can be safely made smaller, even zero, as the package name will always expand it in an uniform way).

Basically, the defaults which work for Debian do not work for Ubuntu, while the package name column is unnecessarily wide:

shot@devielle:~$ rmadison ufraw
debian:
     ufraw |     0.10-1 |     etch-m68k | source, m68k
     ufraw |     0.10-1 |        stable | source, alpha, amd64, …
     ufraw |     0.13-1 |       testing | source
     ufraw |     0.13-1 |      unstable | source
     ufraw |  0.13-1+b2 |       testing | alpha, amd64, arm, …
     ufraw |  0.13-1+b2 |      unstable | alpha, amd64, arm, …
     ufraw |     0.15-1 |  experimental | source, alpha, amd64, …
ubuntu:
     ufraw | 0.5+cvs20051021-1 | dapper/universe | source, amd64, i386, powerpc
     ufraw | 0.11-2ubuntu3 | gutsy/universe | source, amd64, i386, powerpc
     ufraw | 0.13-1build1 | hardy/universe | source, amd64, i386
     ufraw | 0.13-1build2 | intrepid/universe | source, amd64, i386
     ufraw |   0.14.1-2 | jaunty/universe | source, amd64, i386

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

rmadison just passes the output straight through from madison-lite on the server, so it's madison-lite that would need to be changed.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Incidentally, the package name will not always be a uniform width. Consider -S, or just passing multiple package names at once.

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

There's no reason this needs to be about default column widths, but rather just about expanding columns to match the largest member of the set. A better example than the above one is this, where the versions are enormous:

(base)adconrad@cthulhu:~$ rmadison -uubuntu,debian -aamd64 firefox iceweasel
ubuntu:
   firefox | 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu4 | lucid | amd64
   firefox | 11.0+build1-0ubuntu4 | precise | amd64
   firefox | 16.0.1+build1-0ubuntu1 | quantal | amd64
   firefox | 20.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.3 | lucid-security | amd64
   firefox | 20.0+build1-0ubuntu0.10.04.3 | lucid-updates | amd64
   firefox | 20.0+build1-0ubuntu2 | raring | amd64
   firefox | 24.0+build1-0ubuntu1 | saucy | amd64
   firefox | 25.0+build3-0ubuntu0.13.10.1 | trusty | amd64
   firefox | 25.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 | precise-security | amd64
   firefox | 25.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1 | precise-updates | amd64
   firefox | 25.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1 | quantal-security | amd64
   firefox | 25.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1 | quantal-updates | amd64
   firefox | 25.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.13.04.1 | raring-security | amd64
   firefox | 25.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.13.04.1 | raring-updates | amd64
   firefox | 25.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.13.10.1 | saucy-security | amd64
   firefox | 25.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.13.10.1 | saucy-updates | amd64
   firefox | 26.0~b6+build1-0ubuntu1 | trusty-proposed | amd64
debian:
 iceweasel | 3.5.16-20 | squeeze-security | amd64
 iceweasel | 3.5.16-20 | squeeze | amd64
 iceweasel | 10.0.12esr-1~bpo60+1 | squeeze-backports | amd64
 iceweasel | 17.0.9esr-1~deb7u1 | wheezy | amd64
 iceweasel | 17.0.9esr-1~deb7u1 | jessie | amd64
 iceweasel | 17.0.10esr-1~deb7u1 | wheezy-security | amd64
 iceweasel | 24.1.0esr-1 | sid | amd64
 iceweasel | 25.0-1 | experimental | amd64

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

THANK YOU, HTML, FOR COMPLETELY DESTROYING THE VISUAL.

I assure you that if you run that command by hand, all the ones from Debian have uniform column widths. :P

[Trent W. Buck (twb)]

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[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I've uploaded a fixed version to Debian and deployed it on the backend for "rmadison -u ubuntu". This bug will be closed when the fixed version is auto-synced to trusty.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package madison-lite - 0.18

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madison-lite (0.18) unstable; urgency=low

  * Calculate optimal column sizes in the same way as Debian's madison.cgi,
    and otherwise tweak output formatting to match (LP: #315833).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Tue, 26 Nov 2013 10:20:59 +0000