Bug#888401: diffoscope: report differences in filesystem extended attributes

2018-01-25 Thread Chris Lamb
Hey Niels, > I am curious; the code seems like it implicitly rely on xattr.get_all > returning keys in sorted/deterministic order to get a "non-noisy" diff, > does xattr.get_all return values in a sorted/deterministic order? When initially implementing this, I thought I saw a sorting call in the

Bug#888401: diffoscope: report differences in filesystem extended attributes

2018-01-24 Thread Niels Thykier
On Thu, 25 Jan 2018 09:53:29 +0530 Chris Lamb wrote: > tags 888401 + pending > tags 888402 - pending > thanks > > Hi Paul, > > Oops, I got #888401 and #888402 confused as they were submitted so soon > together and with similar names. Anyway, I've implemented the extended > metadata stuff here: >

Bug#888401: diffoscope: report differences in filesystem extended attributes

2018-01-24 Thread Chris Lamb
tags 888401 + pending tags 888402 - pending thanks Hi Paul, Oops, I got #888401 and #888402 confused as they were submitted so soon together and with similar names. Anyway, I've implemented the extended metadata stuff here: https://anonscm.debian.org/git/reproducible/diffoscope.git/commit/?id

Bug#888401: diffoscope: report differences in filesystem extended attributes

2018-01-24 Thread Paul Wise
Package: diffoscope Version: 90 Severity: wishlist It would be nice if diffoscope could report differences in filesystem xattrs. This would help when comparing directories with files that have been downloaded with wget (or other downloaders that set xattrs). In Debian we have two Python 3 modules