The APK format is a ZIP file that always includes the files
AndroidManifest.xml and classes.dex. Then it also always
has a JAR signature (i.e. META-INF/). It does not have the
JAR magic number CAFEBABE in it.
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Hans-Christoph Steiner:
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> I'd like a way to force the file type in diffoscope. We are calling it
> from a build process, so we already know all files are going to be APKs.
> Also, I tried to get this added to libfile, but upstream is not willing
> to accept
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Bug #868486 [diffoscope] diffoscope often fails to detect APKs
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868486: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=868486
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tags 868486 + pending
thanks
Fixed in Git:
https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=c14424059b7836d59da8e18c260e34dc797cb02e
Thanks for providing the testcases! :)
Regards,
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Package: diffoscope
Version: 83
APKs are basically a ZIP file with a JAR signature, but not necessarily
the CAFEBABE byte sequence that marks a JAR. This means that comparing
APKs with diffoscope often results in a straight binary diff, which is
useless.
Here's one example:
