[Reproducible-builds] Bug#808003: Bug#808003: diffoscope: Comparing directories shouldn't care about file order

Jérémy Bobbio lunar at debian.org
Fri Dec 18 10:46:44 UTC 2015


Control: tag -1 + pending

Mike Hommey:
>    * What led up to the situation?
> 
> Comparing two directories
> 
>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?
> 
> Ran `diffoscope --html output.html a b` where a and b are directories containing
> more or less the same thing.
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
> 
> The output contained differences in the output for find due to
> filesystem-dependent behavior wrt file ordering in readdir(3).
> 
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> 
> The sorted list should be compared instead.

I've just commited a fix. Thanks for the report.

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