Bug#896934: diffoscope: decode monitor EDID data to text

[Paul Wise]

On Thu, 2018-04-26 at 09:08 +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:

>  * add a test

EDID data is almost always proprietary so I'm not sure how to do that.

>  * expand that TODO item, I can't understand what it is about

diffoscope does not compare the output of the commands when one of them
returns an exit code other than zero. As far as I can tell this is
hard-coded in the File class, so I assumed this was a design choice?

$ git grep -p -B9 -A1 'exited with'

>  * explain why the external_tools.py's dict lists both edid-decode and
>    read-edid, but in the build-dep are made as alternatives

Both are optional and only run if installed, either one is useful for
comparing the files but edid-decode shows more details.

-- 
bye,
pabs

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