[Reproducible-builds] Bug#789003: Bug#789003: debbindiff: should not try to create device files

[Reiner Herrmann]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 01:40:03AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> create_inode: could not create character device 
> /tmp/tmpq_LCg2debbindiff/dev/console, because you're not superuser!
> create_inode: could not create character device 
> /tmp/tmpx7eb3fdebbindiff/dev/console, because you're not superuser!
> 
> -> debbindiff should not try to create device files when analyzing filesystem 
> which contain device files... :)

This message is coming from unsquashfs btw. (used to extract squashfs
images), not from debbindiff itself.
I don't think debbindiff can do much there, and I also haven't found
an option for unsquashfs to prevent trying to extrect device nodes.

We could perhaps suppress error messages (at least for tools where
we know they are "harmless") and only display them when --debug
was specified.

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