[diffoscope] diffoscope unable to use dumppdf.py

Maik Herbers mail at ikherbers.com
Tue Oct 20 08:54:08 UTC 2026


Hey Chris,

On 2026-10-19T09:34:26-0700, Chris Lamb wrote:
>Thanks for the report. I think the fix is fairly straightforward:
>
>  https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope/commit/ee5fc6137c28e9bf52f6687c650b1e75a7174615

Thanks for patch!  I can confirm that it fixes the issue.

One thing maybe worth considering is that there might be other programs 
that suffer from the same issue.

>Let me know if that works for you. (I plan to release diffoscope again
>later this week if it is more convenient for you to test released versions
>over patches or Git HEAD.)

Using Guix this is as simple as

     guix shell --with-patch=diffoscope=... diffoscope # :-)

Thanks again!

vicvbcun


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