[Reproducible-builds] Bug#797759: Bug#797759: diffoscope: tar.gz and tar.bz2 archives compared wrongly

[Michele Alessandrini]

Il 02/09/2015 14:38, Jérémy Bobbio ha scritto:
> Control: retitle -1 diffoscope: implement fuzzy-matching across containers
> Control: severity -1 wishlist
>
> Michele Alessandrini:
>> When comparing tar.gz or tar.bz2 archives containing text files, some
>> of which different, the output is a binary diff. Perhaps it only
>> applies decompression and compares the two tar files, instead of their
>> contents?
>
> That can be implemented by adding support for fuzzy-matching across
> containers. This would also detect and compare properly a file being
> compressed from one version to the next.
>
> It's doable. The trickiest part in my mind so far is where to attach
> them in the tree of differences.
>

But isn't reading files inside archives a main feature of diffoscope?