Bug#849403: diffoscope: Improvesupport for Android apps

Mon Dec 26 19:40:32 UTC 2016

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 07:19:17PM +0200, Emanuel Bronshtein wrote:
> 2. Support parsing android resources not in APK file
>
> Support for some Android files (such as: AndroidManifest.xml & resources.arsc) was added in:
> https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=3e748664a91b7ced412547a204e1473161425d4f
> but it works only if comparing APK files, not directories / when the content archived in other format (non ZIP)

That's unfortunately a limitation of apktool that it only operates on
the whole apk archive, and is not able to dump already extracted files
(like the binary AndroidManifest).
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