tags 827222 + wontfix thanks Hi Ed,
> diffoscope: Support a timeout on the individual commands invoked > by diffoscope Firstly, thanks for the report. I can certainly understand that it can be frustrating when diffoscope times out. :/ However, having an individual timeout on the invoked commands means that the generated reports will sometimes contain the extra diff data and sometimes not. This non-determinism is not a big problem from a pure reproducibility point of view, but IMHO developer tools should contain as little "magic" as possible and — above all — should produce entirely consistent output. For example. I can imagine it being even more frustrating to be grepping for a particular string in the output for it to sometimes appear and sometimes not depending on CPU load, wasting precious time and cognitive load. Thus, I am marking this as wontfix. (If it helps, I notice that you reported this against diffoscope 54. In the meantime, we have improved the performance of diffoscope quite considerably so these timeouts are far less common.) Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `. `'` la...@debian.org / chris-lamb.co.uk `-