Bug#1068705: diffoscope crashes on libscout 2.3.2-3 build on unstable but not bullseye

[Holger Levsen]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 03:00:42PM +0200, Fay Stegerman wrote:
> > (thanks again!), am I correct to assume that thus there's no need
> > to file a seperate bug against libscout?
> It's generating a broken ZIP file with duplicate entries.  It really shouldn't
> be doing that, regardless of whether we can extract the files nonetheless.
> That's still a bug that should be reported and fixed.

ok, will do, mostly using this bug as reference, thanks!

> > (which is nice, though maybe could only been shown once?)
> Ah.  It correctly shows that twice as there could be differences between the two
> files being compared wrt whether they have duplicate entries (and if so how
> many).
> 
> And if you run 'diffoscope foo.zip bar.zip' it'll show those two different file
> names.  But in this case we have nested archives and the path (and in this case
> also the number of duplicate entries) is identical for both, so maybe we can
> tweak the output to show which top-level file it belongs to?

yes.

:)
 
> > though this later is done using diffoscope from unstable while the
> > rest of the userland is bullseye, so this might be expected as well?
> Ah.  Looks like zipdetails(1) on bullseye doesn't support the --redact, --scan,
> and --utc options yet.

right, thanks for confirming in detail!


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