Re: Tool suggestions for new formats?
Rodrigo Gallardo <rodrigo@nul-unu.com> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:30:40AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 03:43:42AM +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 17:28:39 -0800, Rodrigo Gallardo wrote:
>> > > Part of my usual workflow with the 1.0 format is to do an interdiff on
>> > > the .diff.gz from the previous version
>> >
>> > Just use debdiff, which even supports stuff like comparing a source
>> > format 1.0 against a 3.0.
>>
>> By unpacking ?
>
> Apparently. From debdiff(1):
>
> If debdiff is passed two source packages (.dsc files) it will
> compare the contents of the source packages. If the source packages
> differ only in Debian revision number (that is, the .orig.tar.gz files
> are the same in the two .dsc files), then interdiff(1) will be used to
> compare the two patch files if this program is available on the
> system, otherwise a diff will be performed between the two source
> trees.
Technically interdiff can still be used. Esspecially when comparing
3.0 against 3.0. If the orig.tar and orig-component.tar files are the
same it could untar only the debian.tar, diff the debian dir but
interdiff the debian/patches/*
Optimizing the 1.0 vs 3.0 compare so it doesn't unpack the orig.tar is
probably wasted effort. How often does one do that?
MfG
Goswin
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