Package: diffoscope Version: 31 Severity: important
When comparing tar.gz or tar.bz2 archives containing text files, some of which different, the output is a binary diff. Perhaps it only applies decompression and compares the two tar files, instead of their contents? -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages diffoscope depends on: ii python 2.7.9-1 ii python-debian 0.1.27 ii python-libarchive-c 2.1-3 ii python-magic 1:5.22+15-2 ii python-rpm 4.12.0.1+dfsg1-3 ii python-tlsh 3.2.1+20150727-1 pn python:any <none> Versions of packages diffoscope recommends: ii acl 2.2.52-2 pn binutils-multiarch <none> ii bzip2 1.0.6-8 ii cpio 2.11+dfsg-4.1 ii default-jdk [java-sdk] 2:1.7-52 pn fontforge-extras <none> ii genisoimage 9:1.1.11-3 ii gettext 0.19.4-1 pn ghc <none> ii gnupg 1.4.19-5 pn mono-utils <none> ii openjdk-7-jdk [java-sdk] 7u75-2.5.4-2 ii pdftk 2.02-3 ii poppler-utils 0.26.5-3 ii rpm2cpio 4.12.0.1+dfsg1-3 pn sng <none> ii sqlite3 3.8.11.1-1 pn squashfs-tools <none> ii unzip 6.0-18 ii vim-common 2:7.4.826-1 ii xz-utils 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2.1 diffoscope suggests no packages. -- no debconf information _______________________________________________ Reproducible-builds mailing list Reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reproducible-builds