Gbp-Dch: ignore

Drop some legacy argument styles; --exclude-directory-metadata and --no-exclude-directory-metadata have been replaced with --exclude-directory-metadata={yes,no}.

Gbp-Dch: ignore

In the RData comparator, always explicitly return a None value in the failure cases as we return a non-None value in the "success" one.

Don't emit "javap not found in path" if it is available in the path but it did not result in an actual difference.

Gbp-Dch: ignore

Jean-Romain Garnier authored Jul 13, 2020 and Chris Lamb committed Jul 14, 2020

Improve output of side-by-side diffs, detecting added lines better. (MR: reproducible-builds/diffoscope!64

)

Signed-off-by: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>

Fix "... not available in path" messages when looking for Java decompilers; we were using the Python class name (eg. "<class 'diffoscope.comparators.java.Javap'>") over the actual command we looked for (eg. "javap").

Jean-Romain Garnier authored Jul 10, 2020 and Chris Lamb committed Jul 11, 2020

Allow passing file with list of arguments to ArgumentParser (eg. "diffoscope @args.txt"). (MR: reproducible-builds/diffoscope!62

)

Signed-off-by: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>

Gbp-Dch: ignore

Pass the absolute path when extracting members from .squashfs images as we run the command with working directory in a temporary directory. (Closes: reproducible-builds/diffoscope#189, Debian:#964365)

Increase the minimum length of the output of strings(1) to 8 to avoid unnecessary diff noise. (Re. reproducible-builds/diffoscope#148)