Bug#900593: diffoscope: GNU tar xattrs result in: libarchive: Ignoring malformed pax extended attribute

[Chris Lamb]

Hi Tianon,

> It gets worse -- apparently any combination of "--xattrs" (with or
> without "--xattrs-include" values) makes GNU tar's output completely
> unreproducible (running it on the same directory twice will provide a
> different result).

Oh, neat! Hm, can you try:

  --pax-option=exthdr.name=%d/PaxHeaders/%f,atime:=0


Regards,

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