On Wed, 2016-03-16 at 23:10:13 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > Package: diffoscope > Version: 51 > Severity: wishlist
> It seems diffoscope does not fully support the deb(5) format as > specified in the man page. At least control.tar.xz members, and > probably neither control.tar nor data.tar. > > It would be nice if these could be supported, as I might try to > get these accepted by dak. It was mentioned off-bts that this was not entirely clear, so let me fix that. The program was added to <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/DebSupport> as not supporting the aforementioned .deb ar members, which is implemented in diffoscope/comparators/deb.py. The full .deb format is specified in the deb(5) man page, and anything there should ideally be supported by 3rd-party parsers, as otherwise they might fail to process binaries that can be generated now or have been in the past by dpkg-deb or other tools. Thanks, Guillem
