Bug#966256: reprotest: fails with diffoscope 153

gregor herrmann gregoa at debian.org
Sun Jul 26 09:55:50 BST 2020


On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 20:07:53 -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:

> > So changing '--exclude-directory-metadata' to
> > '--exclude-directory-metadata=yes' seems to be the way to go.
> > (And monkey-patching =yes into
> > /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/reprotest/__init__.py, line 608 seems
> > to work indeed.)
> 
> Thanks! I've tested and pushed a trivial fix based on the above.

Thank you!
 
> On closer look, the --exclude-directory-metadata=yes|no syntax was
> introduced in 112 (present in buster at least), so it might be ok to
> just assume a "new" version of diffoscope, though there is currently no
> way to override this argument being passed.

Sounds good :)


Cheers,
gregor

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