Bug#868486: diffoscope often fails to detect APKs

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Tue Jul 25 04:59:53 UTC 2017


The APK format is a ZIP file that always includes the files
AndroidManifest.xml and classes.dex.  Then it also always
has a JAR signature (i.e. META-INF/).  It does not have the
JAR magic number CAFEBABE in it.



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