[diffoscope] [Reproducible-builds] Support for --ignore-profile flag in diffoscope

Jérémy Bobbio lunar at debian.org
Fri May 13 10:54:50 CEST 2016


Ximin Luo:
> This is quite an open-ended problem and there is no single "correct"
> answer. I don't even know myself what would be best, at this stage.

I think what we need to come up with now is a list of use cases. Then we
can decide which one we want to support and how easy it should be.

Is anyone willing to share examples where being able to ignore stuff
would have made their life easier?

The last one I spotted that could go on the list, ignoring irrelevant
differences in two Android App packages:
https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/blob/master/apkdiff/apkdiff.py

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