Bug#1068705: diffoscope crashes on libscout 2.3.2-3 build on unstable but not bullseye

[Chris Lamb]

Holger Levsen wrote:

> when building libscout 2.3.2-3 on current unstable, the result is also 
> unreproducible, but diffoscope crashes when analysing the diff.

I think this is somewhat related to:

  https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope/-/issues/362

… which was said to be fixed by Fay in cc3b077f6ef97b4e20036e9823926fe633c7d4d0
that released as diffoscope version 263 on 2024-04-05.

However, I can see that the current output of libscout/amd64 on
tests.reproducible-builds.org is failing with this very version:

  Tue Apr  9 12:14:14 UTC 2024  I: diffoscope 263 will be used to compare the two builds:

  From https://gist.github.com/lamby/e5db96d4d61612485a469b826590192e/raw
  (saved output for posterity)

Will loop Fay in via Salsa presently.


Regards,

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