Hi all, In case you haven't heard about it, diffoscope is a tool that came out of the reproducible builds work. It has many uses outside reproducible builds, in particular I have been using it for reviewing changes to source and binary packages. It is really quite great for doing that on the terminal. I would encourage everyone to use it to compare the last upload with the current one when sponsoring updates to packages or before sending package updates to the mentors server. It is quite a bit better than debdiff for those two tasks. If you still have the .changes file from the last upload you can run it against the two .changes files or if not compare the two .dsc files and manually download and then compare the .deb files. If you aren't running Debian stretch/sid you can run it in a chroot or try it online.
http://diffoscope.org/ https://try.diffoscope.org/ https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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