Quoting Francesco Poli (2020-02-01 16:52:47)
> The only differences shown in the resulting report_diffoscope.html file seem
> to be:
> 
>   • the generated files in the content
>     of ./boot/initrd.img-5.4.0-3-amd64 have differing creation
>     timestamps (but this is obvious, since the two initrd were not
>     created exactly at the same time!)
> 
>   • ./var/lib/initramfs-tools/5.4.0-3-amd64 files differ (but they seem
>     to include some checksum of the initrd, hence the difference should
>     be consequence of the first point)

this should go away when you set SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH to something like $(date
+%s) -- why didn't you set it in your tests?

>   • ./etc/machine-id and ./var/lib/dbus/machine-id files differ (but I
>     think this should not be surprising...)

In the next mmdebstrap release /etc/machine-id will be set to an empty file.

>   • ./usr/lib/python3.7/__pycache__/hashlib.cpython-37.pyc files have
>     some different hex values (I am not sure why, but it's compiled
>     Python code, maybe it includes a compilation timestamp or
>     something?!?)

This is a known bug that I have yet to report to the Python maintainers.

> I am under the impression that the two .tar files are to be considered
> equivalent.
> Do you agree?

Yes. :)

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