diffoscope 163 released 💠

[Chris Lamb]

Hi,

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of
version 163 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 163 includes the following changes:

  [ Chris Lamb ]
  * Bug fixes & new features:
    - Normalise "ret" to "retq" in objdump output to support multiple versions
      of obdump(1). (Closes: #976760, reproducible-builds/diffoscope#227)
    - Don't show progress indicators when running zstd(1).
      (Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope#226)
    - Move the slightly-confusing behaviour of loading an "existing diff" if a
      single file is passed to diffoscope to the new --load-existing-diff
      command.
  * Output improvements:
    - Use pprint.pformat in the JSON comparator to serialise the differences
      from jsondiff to make the output render better.
    - Correct tense in --debug log output.
  * Code quality:
    * Don't use an old-style "super" call.
    - Rewrite the filter routine for post-processing output from readelf(1).
    - Update my copyright years.
    - Remove unncessary PEP 263 encoding lines (replaced via PEP 3120).
    - Use "minimal" instead of "basic" as a variable name to match the
      underlying package name.
    - Add comment regarding Java tests for diffoscope contributors who are not
      using Debian. (Re: reproducible-builds/diffoscope!58)
  * Debian packaging:
    - Update debian/copyright to match copyright notices in source-tree.
      (Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope#224)
    - Ensure the new "diffoscope-minimal" package has a different short
      description from the main "diffoscope" one.

  [ Jean-Romain Garnier ]
  * Add tests for OpenJDK 14.

  [ Conrad Ratschan ]
  * Add comparator for "legacy" uboot uImage files.
    (MR: reproducible-builds/diffoscope!69)

## Download

Version 163 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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