[Reproducible-builds] Bug#808267: diffoscope: Redundant information in ELF comparisons

[Jérémy Bobbio]

Hi Mike,

Mike Hommey:
> When comparing ELF files, the following commands are used:
> - readelf --all
> - readelf --debug-dump
> - objdump --disassemble --full-contents
> 
> objdump --disassemble --full-contents is actually redundant in itself. For
> example, it will dump both an hexdump and a disassembly of the .text section.
> It's also redundant with the output of readelf --debug-dump because it does an
> hexdump of the .debug_* sections that readelf --debug-dump does a dwarf dump
> of.

The master branch now compare ELF files section by section. If you could
test it and see if there's still redundancies, I would be grateful.

Thanks!
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