Bug#1085257: diffoscope: Compare ar(1) archives

[Alejandro Colomar]

Hi Chris,

On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 03:15:52PM GMT, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Hi Alejandro,
> 
> > Please find them attached.
> 
> Thanks for the files. Unfortunately, I can't seem to reproduce your traceback.
> 
> Can you provide the output on your system of the following:
> 
>    $ file liba2i.a liba2i_ranlibbed.a
> 
>    $ dpkg -l file
> 
>    $ dpkg -l | grep libarchive

alx at debian:~/src/alx/liba2i/contrib$ file liba2i*.a
liba2i.a:           current ar archive
liba2i_ranlibbed.a: current ar archive
alx at debian:~/src/alx/liba2i/contrib$ dpkg -l file | tail -n1
ii  file           1:5.45-3     amd64        Recognize the type of data in a file using "magic" numbers
alx at debian:~/src/alx/liba2i/contrib$ dpkg -l | grep libarchive
ii  libarchive-dev:amd64                                     3.7.4-1                                  amd64        Multi-format archive and compression library (development files)
ii  libarchive-tools                                         3.7.4-1                                  amd64        FreeBSD implementations of 'tar' and 'cpio' and other archive tools
ii  libarchive-zip-perl                                      1.68-1                                   all          Perl module for manipulation of ZIP archives
ii  libarchive13t64:amd64                                    3.7.4-1                                  amd64        Multi-format archive and compression library (shared library)
ii  python3-libarchive-c                                     5.1-0.2                                  all          Python3 interface to libarchive
alx at debian:~/src/alx/liba2i/contrib$ dpkg -l | grep diffoscope
ii  diffoscope                                               281                                      all          in-depth visual diff tool for files, archives and directories
ii  diffoscope-minimal                                       281                                      all          in-depth visual diff tool for files, archives and directories (minimal package)
alx at debian:~/src/alx/liba2i/contrib$ sha256sum liba2i*.a
ff565e651c66162ff2fc93ac50d9038e1d40274cb6cb9cf878b93740534411ed  liba2i.a
499b2643ec2c51b6c608df70a5d881ce0f22a616cafeeb03dbedde71a530c010  liba2i_ranlibbed.a
alx at debian:~/src/alx/liba2i/contrib$ apt-file find bin/sha256sum
coreutils: /usr/bin/sha256sum             
alx at debian:~/src/alx/liba2i/contrib$ dpkg -l | grep coreutils
ii  coreutils                                                9.4-3.1                                  amd64        GNU core utilities


Have a lovely night!
Alex

> 
> For reference, I get:
> 
>   $ file liba2i.a liba2i_ranlibbed.a
>   liba2i.a:           data
>   liba2i_ranlibbed.a: data
> 
>   $ dpkg -l file
>   Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
>   | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
>   |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
>   ||/ Name           Version      Architecture Description
>   +++-==============-============-============-==========================================================
>   ii  file           1:5.45-3     amd64        Recognize the type of data in a file using "magic" numbers
> 
> 
>   $ dpkg -l | grep libarchive
>   ii  libarchive-cpio-perl                    0.10-3      […]
>   ii  libarchive-tools                        3.7.4-1     […]
>   ii  libarchive-zip-perl                     1.68-1      […]
>   ii  libarchive13t64:amd64                   3.7.4-1     […]
>   ii  python3-libarchive-c                    5.1-0.2     […]

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