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Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable

From	Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Bug#1088739: colors make ip's output unreadable
Date	2025-03-26 19:00 +0100
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 at 16:09, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2025 13:50:14 +0100 "Oliver M. Schode"
> <oliver.schode@online.de> wrote:
> > Package: iproute2
> > Version: 6.13.0-1
> > Followup-For: Bug #1088739
> >
> > If it's wont-fix I guess the bug might as well be closed, or at least
> > denoted as it certainly isn't something we can't work around. That
> said
> > I find the request about as reasonable as it gets, nor are we talking
> > about mere matters of taste. On black background, which I still think
> > isn't too uncommon, the default is indeed unreadable. Nothing to argue
> > about. Then speaking of workarounds, I've been making do with an
> alias:
> > ip='ip -c=never'. Obviously far from optimal, maybe I could play
> around
> > with (another) environment variable that is only to do with colors,
> > those too are beginning to pile up. At least why it would have to be
> > blue, instead of say bright red, which is perfectly legible, I do not
> > quite understand.
>
> Today's upload of version 6.14.0-1 adds support for the widely used
> NO_COLOR environment variable.
>
> I've sent some additional patches (to this bug report, and upstream)
> which seem to improve the readability of coloured text in GNOME Terminal
> and xterm with a dark background.  Those haven't yet been applied
> anywhere.

Very nice work, thanks for taking care of it! As soon as Steve/Dave
merge that series in main-next I'll backport it

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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

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