Did you noticed
$ LANG=C apt-cache search xdelta | grep ^x
xdelta - A diff utility which works with binary files
xdelta3 - Diff utility which works with binary files
... so probably there would have been a shortcut from installing xdelta3
from upstream source - but again ... thanks for your intense work on
this!
> Suggestion A:
> ===========
> [DEFAULT]
> pristine-tar = False
Admittedly I would not like this.
>We should in any case report the result of your analyses to the
>
> This probably would have to be brought to the maintainers of pristine-tar...
maintainers of pristine-tar. Please file a bug report against xdelta
by either including your analysis or linking to your analysis mail in
the archive of the mailing list. (Please check before BTS if this is
a known problem).
In addition you could file a bug to pristine-tar maintainers to use
xdelta3 instead of xdelta to avoid the problem you reported in
#<bugnumber>.
Considering that some other packages are affected:
$ apt-cache rdepends xdelta
xdelta
Reverse Depends:
debdelta
pristine-tar
vzdump
syncmaildir
the maintainers might (or might not?) be kept in the row as well.
You missed the obvious one to file a bug report. ;-)
> I'm probably missing other good alternatives.