Bug#843531: diffoscope: walk through packages twice when comparing two .changes

Mattia Rizzolo mattia at debian.org
Mon Nov 7 13:38:03 UTC 2016


package: diffoscope

If you compare two .changes containing .buildinfo in them, diffoscope
will work its way through the binaries twice, through:
    .changes → .deb → file
    .changes → .buildinfo → .deb → file

This leads to:
 * double comparison time
 * differences reported twice in the report (this also means that every
   package will most probably hit the "max report size" limit)
 * annoyance to the user.

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                        Mattia Rizzolo

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