Bug#1144242: diffoscope treats some SVG files as binary files

Gioele Barabucci gioele at debian.org
Wed Aug 12 22:40:56 BST 2026


Package: diffoscope
Version: 325

Dear diffoscope maintainers,

for some reasons, diffoscope treats certain SVG files as binary files 
and shows their differences using their xxd/hexdump representation.

This can be seen in 
<https://reproduce.debian.net/all/api/v1/builds/221840/artifacts/473733/diffoscope>.

Please find attached two versions of a SVG image that is properly 
recognized by `file` as "SVG Scalable Vector Graphics image" files but 
treated as binary files by diffoscope.

Regards,

-- 
Gioele Barabucci
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