Adam D. Barratt: > On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 16:13 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote: >> It would be useful if queue-viewer could run debdiff on binary uploads, >> in order to catch things like missing or new files and permission >> changes. If anything interesting is found this could then be included >> in the queue output. > > As we never seem to get any further in that direction than saying "we > really should do that" after an issue, or a d-i binNMU, some thoughts / > debate points: > > [...] > > Regards, > > Adam >
An additional idea (in the "nice to have" department"): What about recursive diff/diffoscoping of (parts of) the packages? Like including the diff of contents of the maintscripts/ctrl files. As I recall, debdiff does not do that out of the box (except for control itself). Thanks, ~Niels
