Package: diffoscope
Version: 85
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
Dear Maintainer,
While trying to install/use diffoscope from pip (or the Arch Linux
package), I realized that the --progress flag triggers a crash. The
reason as to why this happens is that there are two forks of the
python-progressbar package available, whith slightly different api's.
The one being used by Debian[1] seems to be an abandoned version
(without any updates in two years), whereas there exists a more
actively-developed alternative[2] (possible a takeover). This issue has
also been brought up to the maintainers of python-progressbar, who are
evaluating this upstream change[3]. An arch user suggested a fairly
minimal patch to fix it[4], and there is an more-elaborate descrption of
the API change on the comments of this bug report[5].
It'd be nice if diffoscope was made aware of these versions and possibly
choose the right one depending on which one is available.
Thanks!
-Santiago.
[1] https://github.com/niltonvolpato/python-progressbar
[2] https://github.com/WoLpH/python-progressbar
[3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=839149
[4] http://codepad.org/oIr6JudF
[5] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53505
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.12.7-coreos (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968), LANGUAGE=C
(charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: unable to detect
Versions of packages diffoscope depends on:
ii python33.5.3-1
pn python3-libarchive-c
pn python3-magic
ii python3-pkg-resources 33.1.1-1
Versions of packages diffoscope recommends:
pn acl
pn apktool
pn binutils-multiarch
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1
pn caca-utils
pn colord
pn default-jdk-headless | default-jdk | java-sdk
pn enjarify
pn fontforge-extras
pn fp-utils
pn genisoimage
pn gettext
pn ghc
pn ghostscript
pn gnupg
pn imagemagick
pn jsbeautifier
pn llvm
pn mono-utils
pn openssh-client
pn pdftk
pn poppler-utils
pn python3-argcomplete
ii python3-debian 0.1.30
pn python3-guestfs
pn python3-progressbar
pn python3-rpm
pn python3-tlsh
pn rpm2cpio
pn sng
pn sqlite3
pn squashfs-tools
pn unzip
pn xxd | vim-common
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.2+b1
Versions of packages diffoscope suggests:
pn libjs-jquery
