On Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 12:31 Chris Lamb <la...@debian.org> wrote: > Dear Felipe, > > > > Does the --exclude-directory-metadata option match your requirements? > > > > No, and according to the manpage it is intentional > > Whoops, apologies for the premature suggestion.
No worries, it was still useful :) Indeed, it seems like I > was confused in the past: > > http://bugs.debian.org/893324 > > … leading me to add that exact line: > > > https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope/commit/0da118a131f95811c158c5d47e4d620d01a233ea > > One option here would be to extend the --exclude-directory-metadata > option to ignore metadata inside archive formats too rather than create > a new, separate, option. Thoughts? > I would assume the current behavior is intentional, so it probably should be an (optional) argument for this new behavior. But it would work for me. Saludos