[Reproducible-builds] Bug#808003: Bug#808003: diffoscope: Comparing directories shouldn't care about file order
Jérémy Bobbio
lunar at debian.org
Fri Dec 18 10:46:44 UTC 2015
Control: tag -1 + pending
Mike Hommey:
> * What led up to the situation?
>
> Comparing two directories
>
> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> ineffective)?
>
> Ran `diffoscope --html output.html a b` where a and b are directories containing
> more or less the same thing.
>
> * What was the outcome of this action?
>
> The output contained differences in the output for find due to
> filesystem-dependent behavior wrt file ordering in readdir(3).
>
> * What outcome did you expect instead?
>
> The sorted list should be compared instead.
I've just commited a fix. Thanks for the report.
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