[diffoscope] diffoscope 178 released 💠

[Chris Lamb]

Hi,

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of
version 178 of diffoscope.

diffoscope tries to get to the bottom of what makes files or
directories different. It will recursively unpack archives of many
kinds and transform various binary formats into more human-readable
form to compare them. It can compare two tarballs, ISO images, or PDF
just as easily.

Version 178 includes the following changes:

  [ Chris Lamb ]
  * Don't traceback on an broken symlink in a directory.
    (Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope#269)
  * Rewrite the calculation of a file's "fuzzy hash" to make the control
    flow cleaner.

  [ Balint Reczey ]
  * Support .deb package members compressed with the Zstandard algorithm.
    (LP: #1923845)

  [ Jean-Romain Garnier ]
  * Overhaul the Mach-O executable file comparator.
  * Implement tests for the Mach-O comparator.
  * Switch to new argument format for the LLVM compiler.
  * Fix test_libmix_differences in testsuite for the ELF format.
  * Improve macOS compatibility for the Mach-O comparator.
  * Add llvm-readobj and llvm-objdump to the internal EXTERNAL_TOOLS data
    structure.

  [ Mattia Rizzolo ]
  * Invoke gzip(1) with the short option variants to support Busybox's gzip.

## Download

Version 178 is available from Debian unstable as well as PyPI, and
will shortly be available on other platforms surely. More details can
be found here:

   https://diffoscope.org/

… but source tarballs may be located here:

  https://diffoscope.org/archive/

The corresponding Docker image may be run via (for example):

  $ docker run --rm -t -w $(pwd) -v $(pwd):$(pwd):ro \
      registry.salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope a b


## Contribute

diffoscope is developed within the "Reproducible builds" effort.

  - Git repository
    https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope

  - Docker image, eg.
    registry.salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope
    https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope

  - Issues and feature requests
    https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope/issues

  - Contribution instructions (eg. to file an issue)
    https://reproducible-builds.org/contribute/salsa/


Regards,

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