[Reproducible-builds] Bug#808197: diffoscope: readelf --debug-dump can be brutal

2016-01-18 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Control: tag -1 + pending Mike Hommey: > However, if each debug section was compared individually, that give more > chance for diffoscope to work. (--debug-dump takes values allowing to treat > each debug section independently) Implemented by Dhole and currently available in the master branch.

[Reproducible-builds] Bug#808197: diffoscope: readelf --debug-dump can be brutal

2015-12-16 Thread Mike Hommey
Source: diffoscope Version: 43 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, When comparing the debug symbol files for Firefox, which are rather massive, the output for readelf --debug-dump is 1.7GB compressed. Diff can't handle with that much data without OOM'ing. However, if each debug section was