Bug#907600: diffoscope: add option to ignore timestamp differences in containers

Chris Lamb lamby at debian.org
Thu Aug 30 16:31:31 BST 2018


Dear Felipe,

> > Does the --exclude-directory-metadata option match your requirements?
> 
> No, and according to the manpage it is intentional

Whoops, apologies for the premature suggestion. Indeed, it seems like I
was confused in the past:

  http://bugs.debian.org/893324

… leading me to add that exact line:

  https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope/commit/0da118a131f95811c158c5d47e4d620d01a233ea

One option here would be to extend the --exclude-directory-metadata
option to ignore metadata inside archive formats too rather than create
a new, separate, option. Thoughts?


Regards,

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