Package: diffoscope Version: 95 Severity: normal First, thanks for diffoscope; it's the best. :)
The context for this bug is in [1]. The basic gist is that I need to preserve extended attributes to get the proper capabilities on "/bin/ping" inside a rootfs tarball, so I updated my GNU tar invocation to include "--xattrs", "--acls", and "--selinux" (just for good measure). [1]: https://github.com/debuerreotype/debuerreotype/pull/38 After doing so, I did a quick "diffoscope" of the before/after (which normally is indispensibly helpful in ensuring that my PR does exactly what I expect it to and not a single thing more). I was expecting to see something showing me that I've got some new extended attributes on at least "/bin/ping" (and possibly other files), but instead got the following: | $ diffoscope travis/20170101/amd64/jessie/rootfs.tar.xz output/20170101/amd64/jessie/rootfs.tar.xz | 2018-06-01 17:22:24 W: libarchive: Ignoring malformed pax extended attribute | 2018-06-01 17:22:24 W: libarchive: Ignoring malformed pax extended attribute | 2018-06-01 17:22:24 W: libarchive: Ignoring malformed pax extended attribute | 2018-06-01 17:22:25 W: libarchive: Ignoring malformed pax extended attribute | 2018-06-01 17:22:25 W: libarchive: Ignoring malformed pax extended attribute | 2018-06-01 17:22:26 W: libarchive: Ignoring malformed pax extended attribute | 2018-06-01 17:22:26 W: libarchive: Ignoring malformed pax extended attribute | 2018-06-01 17:22:26 W: libarchive: Ignoring malformed pax extended attribute | 2018-06-01 17:22:26 W: libarchive: Ignoring malformed pax extended attribute | |############################| 100% Time: 0:00:10 | --- travis/20170101/amd64/jessie/rootfs.tar.xz | +++ output/20170101/amd64/jessie/rootfs.tar.xz | ├── rootfs.tar | │ ├── filetype from file(1) | │ │ @@ -1 +1 @@ | │ │ -POSIX tar archive (GNU) | │ │ +POSIX tar archive I've uploaded the two .tar.xz files in question to [2] in case you'd like to reproduce. :) [2]: https://people.debian.org/~tianon/diffoscope-gnu-tar-xattrs/ If there's something obvious I've missed, I apologize! I searched the bugs and the list as much as I could, and couldn't find anything similar (which was surprising -- I would've thought someone else would've run into this long before me). O:> ♥, - Tianon 4096R / B42F 6819 007F 00F8 8E36 4FD4 036A 9C25 BF35 7DD4 -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages diffoscope depends on: ii libpython3.6-stdlib 3.6.5-9 ii python3 3.6.5-3 ii python3-distro 1.0.1-2 ii python3-distutils 3.6.5-3 ii python3-libarchive-c 2.1-3.1 ii python3-magic 2:0.4.15-1 ii python3-pkg-resources 39.1.0-1 Versions of packages diffoscope recommends: ii abootimg 0.6-1+b2 ii acl 2.2.52-3+b1 ii apktool 2.3.3-1 ii binutils-multiarch 2.30-20 ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1 ii caca-utils 0.99.beta19-2+b3 ii colord 1.3.3-2 ii db-util 5.3.1 ii default-jdk-headless 2:1.10-65 ii device-tree-compiler 1.4.6-1 ii docx2txt 1.4-1 ii e2fsprogs 1.44.2-1 ii enjarify 1:1.0.3-4 ii fontforge-extras 0.3-4 ii fp-utils 3.0.4+dfsg-19 ii fp-utils-3.0.4 [fp-utils] 3.0.4+dfsg-19 ii genisoimage 9:1.1.11-3+b2 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-6+b1 ii ghc 8.0.2-11 ii ghostscript 9.22~dfsg-2.1 ii giflib-tools 5.1.4-2 ii gnumeric 1.12.39-1 ii gnupg 2.2.5-1 ii imagemagick 8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3+b1 ii imagemagick-6.q16 [imagemagick] 8:6.9.9.34+dfsg-3+b1 ii jsbeautifier 1.6.4-7 ii libarchive-tools 3.2.2-3.1 ii llvm 1:4.0-40 ii mono-utils 4.6.2.7+dfsg-1 ii odt2txt 0.5-1+b2 ii oggvideotools 0.9.1-4 ii openssh-client 1:7.7p1-2 ii pdftk 2.02-4+b2 ii pgpdump 0.31-0.2 ii poppler-utils 0.63.0-2 ii procyon-decompiler 0.5.32-4 ii python3-argcomplete 1.8.1-1 ii python3-binwalk 2.1.1-16 ii python3-debian 0.1.32 ii python3-defusedxml 0.5.0-1 ii python3-guestfs 1:1.38.1-1 ii python3-jsondiff 1.1.1-2 ii python3-progressbar 2.3-4 ii python3-pyxattr 0.6.0-2+b1 ii python3-tlsh 3.4.4+20151206-1+b3 ii r-base-core 3.4.4-1+b2 ii rpm2cpio 4.14.1+dfsg1-2 ii sng 1.1.0-1+b1 ii sqlite3 3.23.1-1 ii squashfs-tools 1:4.3-6 ii tcpdump 4.9.2-3 ii unzip 6.0-21 ii vim-common 2:8.0.1766-1 pn xmlutils <none> ii xxd 2:8.0.1766-1 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages diffoscope suggests: ii libjs-jquery 3.2.1-1 -- no debconf information
