[Reproducible-builds] Bug#833697: diffoscope: libarchive.exception.ArchiveError when running on two dmg files

[Mattia Rizzolo]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 11:50:26AM +0200, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Wider question: what's the general diffoscope policy on what to do when the
> files are invalid?

I don't this something like that was ever properly defined.

> It seems somewhat cumbersome to do in the code, so I am
> inferring that we just blow up in lots of cases we shouldn't, particularly
> when using Python module-based tools (vs. external commands).

istr in some cases it prints the error and return false (so that a
"lower level" comparator can do the comparison (even if a less useful
one).  I think such behaviour would be perfect.

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