Devuan bug report logs - #224
[Procps package] ["free" command] "Old" output is now the only one without notice

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Package: Procps
Version: 2:3.3.12-3+devuan2.1

I've got a script using the line "buffers/cache" that free used to 
output, in Devuan Jessie for example. In the manual page, a "-o"/"--old" 
option is said to delete this line.

And after upgrading to Devuan Ascii, the script doesn't work anymore: I 
then found that now free behave like if "-o" was always enabled. What's 
that??? If it's an old output, why should it be default now? And what 
about all scripts broke by that change that isn't notified in the 
release notes??? Moreover, the man page isn't up to date, still talking 
about the old behavior.

Message #10 received at 224-done@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

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Version: 2:3.3.15-2+devuan1
Package: Procps

As far as I can see, the documentation of free does not talk about -o or
--old anymore. If I am blind, please reopen. ;)

cu

AW
-- 
[...] If you don't want to be restricted, don't agree to it. If you are
coerced, comply as much as you must to protect yourself, just don't support
it. Noone can free you but yourself. (crag, on Debian Planet)
Arne Wichmann (aw@saar.de)

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Message #15 received at 224@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

Hi, If I'm not wrong, updating only the documentation doesn't solve the 
main concern of this bug witch is a brokening-scripts-change in "free" 
output
-- 
Sincerely, Stephane Ascoet

Message #20 received at 224@bugs.devuan.org (full text, mbox, reply):

On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 10:54:13 +0100
Stephane Ascoet <stephane.ascoet@univ-paris1.fr> wrote:

> Hi, If I'm not wrong, updating only the documentation doesn't solve
> the main concern of this bug witch is a brokening-scripts-change in
> "free" output

I think you should report this backward-incompatible change to the
upstream developers, as the devuan version of the free command comes
unmodified from the procps package

https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/blob/master/Documentation/bugs.md

the change was made 6 years ago, in 3 commits, which removed the -o
option and renamed -a to -w, in addition to a different output format

https://gitlab.com/procps-ng/procps/-/commit/51cd57259aa752fd3b958f61d71e78b4ca7dbef6

as the procps backward-compatibility actually is not guaranteed, may be
it's better to read directly the /proc/meminfo file, as it would not
change in future releases

ciao!

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