Debian Bug report logs - #818414
diffoscope: Please add full support for deb(5)

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: diffoscope: Please add full support for deb(5)

Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 23:10:13 +0100

Package: diffoscope
Version: 51
Severity: wishlist

Hi!

It seems diffoscope does not fully support the deb(5) format as
specified in the man page. At least control.tar.xz members, and
probably neither control.tar nor data.tar.

It would be nice if these could be supported, as I might try to
get these accepted by dak.

Thanks,
Guillem

Message #10 received at 818414@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

To: 818414@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#818414: diffoscope: Please add full support for deb(5)

Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 00:38:34 +0100

On Wed, 2016-03-16 at 23:10:13 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Package: diffoscope
> Version: 51
> Severity: wishlist

> It seems diffoscope does not fully support the deb(5) format as
> specified in the man page. At least control.tar.xz members, and
> probably neither control.tar nor data.tar.
> 
> It would be nice if these could be supported, as I might try to
> get these accepted by dak.

It was mentioned off-bts that this was not entirely clear, so let
me fix that.

The program was added to <https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/DebSupport>
as not supporting the aforementioned .deb ar members, which is
implemented in diffoscope/comparators/deb.py. The full .deb format
is specified in the deb(5) man page, and anything there should ideally
be supported by 3rd-party parsers, as otherwise they might fail to
process binaries that can be generated now or have been in the past by
dpkg-deb or other tools.

Thanks,
Guillem

Message #17 received at 818414-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>

To: 818414-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#818414: fixed in diffoscope 53

Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2016 16:37:06 +0000

Source: diffoscope
Source-Version: 53

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
diffoscope, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 818414@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> (supplier of updated diffoscope package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2016 14:23:16 +0000
Source: diffoscope
Binary: diffoscope
Architecture: source
Version: 53
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Reproducible builds folks <reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Changed-By: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>
Description:
 diffoscope - in-depth comparison of files, archives, and directories
Closes: 818414 818856 820624 823874
Changes:
 diffoscope (53) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Reiner Herrmann ]
   * In the directory comparator, fall back to current directory instead of
     empty name. (Closes: #820624)
   * Improve deb(5) support. (Closes: #818414)
 .
   [ Mattia Rizzolo ]
   * debian/control: add myself to Uploaders.
   * Clean up temporary debuglink files.
   * Fix FileNotFoundError with broken symlinks. (Closes: #818856)
   * Decode Md5sumsFile in utf-8. (Closes: #823874)
   * Always suffix temporary files with '_diffoscope'.
   * Rewrite sanity check for the version to always run every time debian/rules
     is invoked, not only during a binary build.
 .
   [ Ed Maste ]
   * Add FreeBSD packages for required tools.
 .
   [ Ceridwen ]
   * Add README.rst to MANIFEST.in.
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