Bug#797525: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#797525: diffoscope: multiarch mode

2015-09-03 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
Control: retitle -1 diffoscope: provide a way to ignore all differences in 
control.tar

Jérémy Bobbio:
> Jakub Wilk:
> > I want to use diffoscope to compare two "Multi-Arch: same" debs of the same
> > version but different architecture, to see differences that will cause
> > co-installation conflicts.
> >
> > This almost works currently, but there's a bit of noise that could be
> > avoided. I'd like an option that does the following:
> > - Ignores all differences in control.tar.
>
> I had already in mind to provide pluggable ignore modules. So having
> support for this use case is on my personal roadmap.

Let's retitle this bug accordingly.

> > - Disables fuzzy matching.
> 
> That will be a separate option.

Pending upload, this will be doable with `--fuzzy-threshold=0`.

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Bug#797525: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#797525: diffoscope: multiarch mode

2015-08-31 Thread Jérémy Bobbio
clone 797525 -1
retitle -1 diffoscope: provide option to disable fuzzy-matching
thanks

Hi!

Jakub Wilk:
> I want to use diffoscope to compare two "Multi-Arch: same" debs of the same
> version but different architecture, to see differences that will cause
> co-installation conflicts.
>
> This almost works currently, but there's a bit of noise that could be
> avoided. I'd like an option that does the following:
> - Ignores all differences in control.tar.

I had already in mind to provide pluggable ignore modules. So having
support for this use case is on my personal roadmap.

> - Ignores timestamp differences in data.tar.

I can offer to ignore difference in metadata in the data.tar tarball.
Ignoring all timestamp differences in not doable, they could take any
form in any files.

> - Disables fuzzy matching.

That will be a separate option.

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lu...@debian.org: :Ⓐ  :  # apt-get install anarchism
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