Bug#246202: cmp: verbosity needs to be expanded to cover varying levels of detail (fwd)

[Santiago Vila]

Hello.

Received this from the debian bug system:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jim W. Jaszewski <address@hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <address@hidden>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:08:12 -0400
Subject: Bug#246202: cmp: verbosity needs to be expanded to cover varying
    levels of detail

Package: diff
Version: 2.8.1-6
Severity: wishlist


IMO in cmp there should be varying levels of verbosity available, so
users can see just how comparisons are going; i.e.  -l can be
supplemented with -ll, with -lll ...etc. As things stand now (unless I
am missing something) "verbosity" is a pretty terse matter with cmp...


P.S.: Maybe also change -l to -v (and change -v to -V).
What's Debian policy on switch standards, anyway?
;-P