Bug#988488: diffoscope: allow comparing directories with container formats (tar/ZIP/ISO etc)
Paul Wise
pabs at debian.org
Fri May 14 04:41:25 BST 2021
Package: diffoscope
Version: 174
Severity: wishlist
When comparing directories and files that are essentially directories
serialised into a file (such as tar, ZIP, ISO etc), currently
diffoscope just says one is a file while one is a directory.
$ rm -rf ./* ; mkdir foo ; echo foo > foo/bar ; tar acf foo.tar foo ; echo bar >> foo/bar
$ diffoscope foo foo.tar
--- foo
+++ foo.tar
@@ -1 +1 @@
-type: directory
+type: file
diffoscope can already compare two directories, or two tar files or a
zip file and a tar file, so it would be useful if it could compare a
directory with a file in one of the many types of container formats.
This would be useful in many situations but especially for the
situation where dpkg-source reports a change to a file in the working
directory compared to the upstream tarball, but the change isn't
obvious from the output and should not be present in theory.
dpkg-source: error: cannot represent change to foo.exe: binary file contents changed
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers testing-debug
APT policy: (900, 'testing-debug'), (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable-debug'), (800, 'unstable'), (790, 'buildd-unstable'), (700, 'experimental-debug'), (700, 'experimental'), (690, 'buildd-experimental'), (500, 'testing-security')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-6-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages diffoscope depends on:
ii diffoscope-minimal 174
Versions of packages diffoscope recommends:
ii abootimg 0.6-1+b2
ii acl 2.2.53-10
ii apksigner 30.0.3-4
ii apktool 2.5.0+dfsg.1-2
ii binutils-multiarch 2.35.2-2
ii bzip2 1.0.8-4
ii caca-utils 0.99.beta19-2.2
ii colord 1.4.5-3
ii db-util 5.3.1+nmu1
ii default-jdk [java-sdk] 2:1.11-72
ii default-jdk-headless 2:1.11-72
pn device-tree-compiler <none>
pn docx2txt <none>
ii e2fsprogs 1.46.2-1
ii enjarify 1:1.0.3-5
ii ffmpeg 7:4.3.2-0+deb11u1
ii fontforge-extras 1:20201107~dfsg-4
pn fp-utils <none>
ii genisoimage 9:1.1.11-3.2
ii gettext 0.21-4
ii ghc 8.8.4-2
ii ghostscript 9.53.3~dfsg-7
ii giflib-tools 5.1.9-2
ii gnumeric 1.12.48-1+b2
ii gnupg 2.2.27-2
ii gnupg-utils 2.2.27-2
pn hdf5-tools <none>
ii imagemagick 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3
ii imagemagick-6.q16 [imagemagick] 8:6.9.11.60+dfsg-1.3
ii jsbeautifier 1.13.0-1
ii libarchive-tools 3.4.3-2+b1
ii llvm 1:11.0-51+nmu4
ii lz4 [liblz4-tool] 1.9.3-2
pn mono-utils <none>
ii ocaml-nox 4.11.1-4
pn odt2txt <none>
pn oggvideotools <none>
ii openjdk-11-jdk [java-sdk] 11.0.11+9-1
ii openssh-client 1:8.4p1-5
ii openssl 1.1.1k-1
ii pgpdump 0.33-2
ii poppler-utils 20.09.0-3.1
pn procyon-decompiler <none>
ii python3-argcomplete 1.8.1-1.5
ii python3-binwalk 2.3.1+dfsg1-1
ii python3-debian 0.1.39
ii python3-defusedxml 0.6.0-2
ii python3-guestfs 1:1.44.0-2
ii python3-jsondiff 1.1.1-4
ii python3-pdfminer 20200726-1
ii python3-progressbar 2.5-2
ii python3-pypdf2 1.26.0-4
ii python3-pyxattr 0.7.2-1+b1
ii python3-rpm 4.16.1.2+dfsg1-0.4
ii python3-tlsh 3.4.4+20151206-1.3+b4
pn r-base-core <none>
pn radare2 <none>
ii rpm2cpio 4.16.1.2+dfsg1-0.4
ii sng 1.1.0-4
ii sqlite3 3.34.1-3
ii squashfs-tools 1:4.4-2
ii tcpdump 4.99.0-2
ii u-boot-tools 2021.01+dfsg-4
ii unzip 6.0-26
ii vim-common 2:8.2.2434-3
pn wabt <none>
pn xmlbeans <none>
ii xxd 2:8.2.2434-3
ii xz-utils 5.2.5-2
ii zip 3.0-12
ii zstd 1.4.8+dfsg-2.1
Versions of packages diffoscope suggests:
ii libjs-jquery 3.5.1+dfsg+~3.5.5-7
-- no debconf information
--
bye,
pabs
https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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