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

[Chris Lamb]

> > It seems somewhat cumbersome to do in the code
> 
> istr in some cases it prints the error and return false (so that a
> "lower level" comparator can do the comparison

This is, alas, done inconsistently. Some do it in ``recognizes` (returning
False) and some do it in ``compare_details`` but returning ``[]``

However, most appear to not catch useful errors. :)  I will look into
this and come up with something cleaner.


Regards,

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