[diffoscope] Comment should be about line endings instead of ordering difference

Chris Lamb chris at reproducible-builds.org
Thu Jan 16 17:33:15 UTC 2025


Aman Sharma:

> I have attached a diffoscope output for a maven artefact. It shows that 
> there is a diff in 
> `META-INF/maven/ch.qos.logback/logback-access/pom.properties` at line 
> 28 of JSON file and the comments explain that there are "Ordering 
> differences only". However, the diff is only in the line endings and 
> not in the order. The reference version only has line feed characters 
> while the rebuilt version has both line feed and carriage return as 
> line endings.

Could you provide these two pom.properties files or similar? That will
make it much easier to debug and create a testcase (than trying to read
the machine-readable JSON!)

Armed with that, this should be straightforward to address.


Best wishes,

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