Bug#888401: diffoscope: report differences in filesystem extended attributes

[Niels Thykier]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 09:53:29 +0530 Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org> wrote:
> tags 888401 + pending
> tags 888402 - pending
> thanks
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Oops, I got #888401 and #888402 confused as they were submitted so soon
> together and with similar names. Anyway, I've implemented the extended
> metadata stuff here:
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>   https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id=8f8bc714271132afce2edbb32150f73504fc67d0
> 
> For example:
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> [...]
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> Enjoy!
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> Best wishes,
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Hi,

I am curious; the code seems like it implicitly rely on xattr.get_all
returning keys in sorted/deterministic order to get a "non-noisy" diff,
does xattr.get_all return values in a sorted/deterministic order?

Thanks,
~Niels