On Wed, 2024-05-15 at 10:58 +0100, Chris Lamb wrote:

> Ah, I foolishly didn't check back with the original test case. The
> root cause here, if I can call it that, is that we were calling "xz
> --list --verbose" and not specifying a second "--verbose".

That would explain it indeed.

> This has now been remedied in Git, which will most likely be released
> on Friday 17th May. I've used your original test case as a literal
> test fixture, and can confirm it now shows a difference.

Excellent, thanks!

> Given the extra verbose information, I did alas make a related
> change so that it will not show the "--verbose --verbose" output if
> there are differences between the files contained within the .xz.
> Otherwise every single .deb package would show a very lengthy and
> distracting output.

That seems like the right thing to do indeed.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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