On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 12:23:08PM +0200, Chris Lamb wrote:
> This is, alas, done inconsistently. Some do it in ``recognizes` (returning
> False) and some do it in ``compare_details`` but returning ``[]``
this is annoying and should be fixed.
> However, most appear to not catch useful errors.
> > It seems somewhat cumbersome to do in the code
>
> istr in some cases it prints the error and return false (so that a
> "lower level" comparator can do the comparison
This is, alas, done inconsistently. Some do it in ``recognizes` (returning
False) and some do it in ``compare_details`` but
Hi,
> diffoscope: libarchive.exception.ArchiveError when running on two dmg files
ACK.
Wider question: what's the general diffoscope policy on what to do when the
files are invalid? It seems somewhat cumbersome to do in the code, so I am
inferring that we just blow up in lots of cases we
Package: diffoscope
Version: 56
Severity: normal
I get a crash when running diffoscope on these two dmg files. They are just
byproducts of a development process. The two files are here (about 65 MB each):
