Bug#858867: diffoscope: please support pcap files

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

Package: diffoscope
Version: 78
Severity: wishlist

i want to be able to do "diffoscope capture-1.pcap capture-2.cap" and
get something meaningful.

    --dkg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing'), (200, 'unstable-debug'), (200, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages diffoscope depends on:
ii  python3-libarchive-c   2.1-3.1
ii  python3-magic          1:5.29-3
ii  python3-pkg-resources  33.1.1-1
pn  python3:any            <none>

Versions of packages diffoscope recommends:
ii  acl                              2.2.52-3+b1
pn  apktool                          <none>
pn  binutils-multiarch               <none>
ii  bzip2                            1.0.6-8.1
ii  caca-utils                       0.99.beta19-2+b2
pn  colord                           <none>
ii  default-jdk [java-sdk]           2:1.8-58
ii  default-jdk-headless             2:1.8-58
pn  enjarify                         <none>
ii  fontforge-extras                 0.3-4
pn  fp-utils                         <none>
ii  genisoimage                      9:1.1.11-3+b2
ii  gettext                          0.19.8.1-2
ii  ghc                              8.0.1-17+b1
ii  ghostscript                      9.20~dfsg-2
ii  gnupg                            2.1.19-2
ii  imagemagick                      8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-2
ii  imagemagick-6.q16 [imagemagick]  8:6.9.7.4+dfsg-2
pn  jsbeautifier                     <none>
pn  llvm                             <none>
ii  mono-utils                       4.6.2.7+dfsg-1
ii  openjdk-8-jdk [java-sdk]         8u121-b13-4
ii  openssh-client                   1:7.4p1-9
ii  pdftk                            2.02-4+b2
ii  poppler-utils                    0.48.0-2
pn  python3-argcomplete              <none>
ii  python3-debian                   0.1.30
pn  python3-guestfs                  <none>
ii  python3-progressbar              2.3-4
ii  python3-rpm                      4.12.0.2+dfsg1-1
ii  python3-tlsh                     3.4.4+20151206-1+b2
ii  rpm2cpio                         4.12.0.2+dfsg1-1
ii  sng                              1.1.0-1+b1
ii  sqlite3                          3.16.2-3
pn  squashfs-tools                   <none>
ii  unzip                            6.0-21
ii  vim-common                       2:8.0.0197-3
ii  xxd                              2:8.0.0197-3
ii  xz-utils                         5.2.2-1.2+b1

Versions of packages diffoscope suggests:
ii  libjs-jquery  3.1.1-2

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