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

[Chris Lamb]

Hi Tianon,

> > Oh, neat! Hm, can you try:
> >
> >   --pax-option=exthdr.name=%d/PaxHeaders/%f,atime:=0
> 
> Hey, that's snazzy!  That gives me a reproducible result. :)

 "It's so simple!"  >.>

Glad I could resolve your use-case. However, I assume there is still a
diffoscope bug here?

ie. We certainly shouldn't be emitting "Ignoring malformed pax
extended attribute" to stderr and — as a possible improvement — we
should be emitting that as part of the "proper" output?


Regards,

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