Re: [Reproducible-builds] Support for --ignore-profile flag in diffoscope

2016-05-13 Thread Ximin Luo
Satyam Zode: > Yes! I'm looking at those issues but it seems those issues are more in > number. Frankly speaking, I'm not completely aware about many of those. > Hence, I'm requesting you all to give some suggestions (and may be list of > issues) so that I can start working on it further. > Or mayb

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Support for --ignore-profile flag in diffoscope

2016-05-13 Thread Satyam Zode
"Ximin Luo" : > For a start, there's the list of already-known issues. https :// tests.reproducible-builds.org

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Support for --ignore-profile flag in diffoscope

2016-05-13 Thread Holger Levsen
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:44:11PM +0200, Ximin Luo wrote: > Concretely I have some suggestions: > > 1. instead of calling this "ignore" we call it "hide". and instead of > "irrelevant" we say "common"/"minor"/"known" strong ACK. I really really like "--hide-timestamps" much better than "--ig

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Support for --ignore-profile flag in diffoscope

2016-05-13 Thread Ximin Luo
Jérémy Bobbio: > Ximin Luo: >> This is quite an open-ended problem and there is no single "correct" >> answer. I don't even know myself what would be best, at this stage. > > I think what we need to come up with now is a list of use cases. Then we > can decide which one we want to support and how

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Support for --ignore-profile flag in diffoscope

2016-05-13 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Ximin Luo: > This is quite an open-ended problem and there is no single "correct" > answer. I don't even know myself what would be best, at this stage. I think what we need to come up with now is a list of use cases. Then we can decide which one we want to support and how easy it should be. Is an

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Support for --ignore-profile flag in diffoscope

2016-05-12 Thread Ximin Luo
Satyam Zode: > Hi, all ! > I am Satyam Zode, I am GSoC student intern (http://satyamz.github.io > /blog/2016/05/08/google-summer-of-code-2016-with-debian > -reproducible-builds-introduction/). > I am trying to understand the problem "Allow users to ignore arbitrary > differences" ( --ignore-profil

Re: [Reproducible-builds] Support for --ignore-profile flag in diffoscope

2016-05-11 Thread Reiner Herrmann
Hi Satyam, On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 05:49:12PM +0530, Satyam Zode wrote: > I have started thinking about the solution of this problem and for that, I > want to know as a diffoscope user, what kind of stuff would you like to > ignore ? Such as any irrelevant differences which are just making noise a