Bug#1069322: diffoscope crashes when trying to compare unreproducible src:dasel build artifacts

[Holger Levsen]

Package: diffoscope
Version: 264
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: team+pkg-go at tracker.debian.org

Dear Maintainer,

diffoscope crashes when comparing the build results of src:dasel. To make it
more fun, src:dasel is only unreproducible on i386 (out of our four tested
archs, amd64/i386/arm64/armhf) and only *sometimes*.

vagrant added the following note to reproducible-notes.git, visible at
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable/i386/dasel.html

---begin-note---
timezone-dependent date in manpages triggered when building with
reprotest but not reproducible builds test infrastructure.
dasel itself is used to generate the manpage.
https://sources.debian.org/src/dasel/2.7.0-1/internal/command/man.go/
.
Something non-deterministic, possibly GO BUILDID only on i386.
---end-note---

several build artifacts at available at 
https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/artifacts/r00t-me/
and only the i386 ones are sometimes unreproducible and then
crashing diffoscope. (Please download them for investigations,
they will vanish after 48h but I can easily and quickly recreate
them anytime.)


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	Holger

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