[rb-general] Reproducible Android apps: resources.arsc

[Chris Lamb]

Hi Torsten,

> The APK files are 18MB in size each (due to support for various CPU
[…]
> Should I just try to find some other place to upload these files for you?

Please. :)

> Btw. when trying your online service, I got this error:

Please file this as a separate issue to this one so we can keep this
thread and subsequent bug report focused on one thing. :) 

  https://salsa.debian.org/lamby/trydiffoscope/issues/new
 
> Essentially, you run `gradle assembleRelease` and the APK falls out at
> the end. Google's own bug tracker doesn't even seem to differentiate for
> the individual tool that is involved.

ACK. If it helps, when debugging similar issues I add sha1sum calls (or
equivalent depending on the environment and context, naturally!) to the
build tool so I can pinpoint the point in the code that the output
diverges.


Regards,

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