Bug#988789: diffoscope: .so files are compared using a binary diff in Android APKs

Chris Lamb lamby at debian.org
Mon May 24 13:15:03 BST 2021


Chris Lamb wrote:

> > APKs (Android app files) often contain Linux ELF shared library files, e.g.
> > lib/arm64-v8a/libtor.so.  These are only compared using a binary diff, but they
> > should use the shared library comparison.  The output looks like:
>
> It would be great to fix this for you. Could you provide some example
> APK files so I can reproducible what you are currently seeing but also
> confirm that any changes actually solve your problem?

Just wondering if you got this mail? If it helps, I've filed this on
Salsa as well [0] so all our issues are in one place -- it might be
more straightforward to attach files there instead of via email, but
I'm happy to add them there myself.


Best wishes,

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