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Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable

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Hi Luca

On Sat, Nov 30, 2024 at 11:39:31AM +0000, Luca Boccassi wrote:
> See the manpage, you can set COLORFGBG in your shell profile according
> to your configuration.
> There are no patches or color choices downstream, it's just what
> upstream provides, so if you don't like their choice of a default,
> please bring it up upstream, we will not carry out-of-tree patches to
> customise something like this for one particular user, sorry.

The rest of the Debian Kernel team, which is maintainer of this package,
talked about this and came ot the following conclusion: this bug nees to
be fixed.[1]

Enabling colors by default is a deviation from upstream.  Debian also
does not enable colors by default in other low level tools like ls or
grep.  In some cases, colors are enabled in default bash configs.

So please either
- restore the upstream default of color disabled by default, or
- use a better usable color scheme (yes, I know this is hard with how
  colors work on usual termionals).

Bastian

[1]: https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/meetings/-/wikis/20241218#minutes
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Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Harald Dunkel <harri@afaics.de> - 2024-11-30 11:00 +0100
  Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> - 2024-11-30 12:50 +0100
    Re: Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.com> - 2024-12-02 12:20 +0100
      Re: Re: Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2024-12-03 20:30 +0100
        Re: Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> - 2024-12-03 21:00 +0100
    Re: Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Harald Dunkel <harald.dunkel@aixigo.com> - 2024-12-02 12:40 +0100
    Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2024-12-21 15:50 +0100
      Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2025-01-02 11:20 +0100
      Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2025-01-02 21:00 +0100
  Processed: Re: colors make ip's output unreadable "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2024-11-30 12:50 +0100
  Re: Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> - 2024-11-30 14:50 +0100
  Processed: Re: Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2024-12-21 15:50 +0100
  Processed: Re: Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2025-01-02 21:00 +0100
  Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Axel Scheepers <axel.scheepers76@gmail.com> - 2025-01-12 13:30 +0100
  Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Harald Dunkel <harri@afaics.de> - 2025-03-18 09:20 +0100
  Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable "Oliver M. Schode" <oliver.schode@online.de> - 2025-03-19 14:10 +0100
    Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2025-03-26 17:10 +0100
      Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> - 2025-03-26 19:00 +0100
  Bug#1088739: [PATCH iproute2 1/2] color: Introduce and use default_color_opt() function Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2025-03-19 23:00 +0100
    Bug#1088739: [PATCH iproute2 2/2] color: Handle NO_COLOR environment variable in default_color_opt() Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2025-03-19 23:00 +0100
  Bug#1088739: [PATCH iproute2 0/2] Improve coloured text readability Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2025-03-26 15:10 +0100
    Bug#1088739: [PATCH iproute2 2/2] color: Do not use dark blue in dark-background palette Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2025-03-26 15:20 +0100
    Bug#1088739: [PATCH iproute2 1/2] color: Assume background is dark if unknown Ben Hutchings <benh@debian.org> - 2025-03-26 15:20 +0100
    Bug#1088739: [PATCH iproute2 0/2] Improve coloured text readability patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org - 2025-04-06 19:20 +0200
  Bug#1088739: marked as done (colors make ip's output unreadable) "Debian Bug Tracking System" <owner@bugs.debian.org> - 2025-04-06 21:20 +0200

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