Package: diffoscope Version: 54 Severity: wishlist I am using diffoscope on FreeBSD and often encounter very long run times. I've since found that the same issue is known upstream: a number of Debian reproducibility bugs are tagged with diffoscope_runs_forever[1] and the Debian CI infrastructure kills it after 60 minutes.
I think it would be nice to have a configurable runtime limit built in to diffoscope for the individual commands it invokes (e.g. objdump --disassemble), so that other nonreproducible components in the same package (etc.) can still be reported, and so that diffoscope still obtains a report. E.g. it could report "Excessive runtime for command 'objdump --disassemble'. Falling back to binary comparison." [1] https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/issues/unstable/diffoscope_runs_forever_issue.html _______________________________________________ Reproducible-builds mailing list Reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reproducible-builds
