diffoscope 260 released 💠

Chris Lamb chris at reproducible-builds.org
Fri Mar 8 12:56:10 UTC 2024


Hi,

The diffoscope maintainers are pleased to announce the release of
version 260 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 260 includes the following changes:

  [ Chris Lamb ]
  * Actually test 7z support in the test_7z set of tests, not the lz4
    functionality. (Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope#359)
  * In addition, correctly check for the 7z binary being available
    (and not lz4) when testing 7z.
  * Prevent a traceback when comparing a contentful .pyc file with an
    empty one. (Re: Debian:#1064973)

## Download

Version 260 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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