Bug#888237: Fwd: Re: diffoscope and file renames

[Jérémy Bobbio]

Chris Lamb:
> > I had no idea I should have installed it, and indeed I was missing it.
> 
> … which is itself a bug! However, the solution is not very obvious - why
> can't really detect whether we need would benefit from fuzzy matching without
> doing said fuzzy matching!
> 
> Will have a think :)

In that case, it might have worked to run difflib.SequenceMatcher on
archive paths to compare their distance. I'm not sure if it's a good
idea at all. :)

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