Raphael, this is the NEWS entry for the change: * Diff now simply prints "Files A and B differ" instead of "Binary files A and B differ". The message is output if either A or B appears to be a binary file, and the old wording was misleading because it implied that both files are binary, which is not necessarily the case.
Apparently, diff will show "Files A and B differ" only when at least one of them is binary, so the "meaning" is the same as before. My suggestion to avoid data loss would be something like this: Files A and B differ and at least one of them is binary. However, as long as the "meaning" is the same (upstream could confirm this) even if the message is not changed again, I think it should be quite easy to adapt dpkg-dev to the new behaviour if it's kept that way. Let's see what upstream think about this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.lnx.4.64.1002161432320.26...@cantor.unex.es
