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Bug#761105: debsources: on the fly package diff / debdiff



On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 01:47:33PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 3:01 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> 
> > Add the ability to diff arbitrary version of packages available in
> > Debsources, producing a debdiff as a result.
> 
> FYI, we were thinking about adding debdiff capabilities to
> snapshot.debian.org, that might make more sense since it has more
> package versions?

We're gonna need it on debsources anyhow, in particular to implement the
"edit" feature suggested by Raphael Geissert. What we could do is to
factorize as much as possible the common parts in a common place, e.g.,
python-debian. But I'm not sure there is actually that *much* code to
write, considering that 1) we will probably invoke the real debdiff as
an external program anyhow and 2) I plan to delegate diff highlighting
to the javascript toolkit we already use. What else is there to be done?

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