Hi, The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of version 165 of diffoscope.
diffoscope tries to get to the bottom of what makes files or directories different. It will recursively unpack archives of many kinds and transform various binary formats into more human-readable form to compare them. It can compare two tarballs, ISO images, or PDF just as easily. Version 165 includes the following changes: [ Dimitrios Apostolou ] * Introduce the --no-acl and --no-xattr arguments [later collapsed to --extended-filesystem-attributes] to improve performance. * Avoid calling the external stat command. [ Chris Lamb ] * Collapse --acl and --xattr into --extended-filesystem-attributes to cover all of these extended attributes, defaulting the new option to false (ie. to not check these very expensive external calls). [ Mattia Rizzolo ] * Override several lintian warnings regarding prebuilt binaries in the * source. * Add a pytest.ini file to explicitly use Junit's xunit2 format. * Ignore the Python DeprecationWarning message regarding the `imp` module deprecation as it comes from a third-party library. * debian/rules: filter the content of the d/*.substvars files ## Download Version 165 is available from Debian unstable as well as PyPI, and will shortly be available on other platforms surely. More details can be found here: https://diffoscope.org/ … but source tarballs may be located here: https://diffoscope.org/archive/ The corresponding Docker image may be run via (for example): $ docker run --rm -t -w $(pwd) -v $(pwd):$(pwd):ro \ registry.salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope a b ## Contribute diffoscope is developed within the "Reproducible builds" effort. - Git repository https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope - Docker image, eg. registry.salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope - Issues and feature requests https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope/issues - Contribution instructions (eg. to file an issue) https://reproducible-builds.org/contribute/salsa/ Regards, -- o ⬋ ⬊ Chris Lamb o o reproducible-builds.org 💠⬊ ⬋ o