Bug#868486: diffoscope often fails to detect APKs

[Ximin Luo]

Control: tags -1 - pending

Hans-Christoph Steiner:
> [..]
> 
> I'd like a way to force the file type in diffoscope.   We are calling it
> from a build process, so we already know all files are going to be APKs.
> Also,  I tried to get this added to libfile, but upstream is not willing
> to accept detection routines that rely on more complicated things like
> presence of a file in a ZIP. They just want byte patterns, which is not
> enough to consistently detect APKs.
> 

Do you have a link to the libfile discussion, and could you provide some more detail on the APK file format? I think in diffoscope we *are* happy to add more complicated detection logic.

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