Bug#655976: queue-viewer: support binary debdiffs

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

Adam D. Barratt:
> On Sun, 2012-01-15 at 16:13 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
>> It would be useful if queue-viewer could run debdiff on binary uploads,
>> in order to catch things like missing or new files and permission
>> changes.  If anything interesting is found this could then be included
>> in the queue output.
> 
> As we never seem to get any further in that direction than saying "we
> really should do that" after an issue, or a d-i binNMU, some thoughts /
> debate points:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Adam
> 

An additional idea (in the "nice to have" department"):
   What about recursive diff/diffoscoping of (parts of) the packages?
Like including the diff of contents of the maintscripts/ctrl files.  As
I recall, debdiff does not do that out of the box (except for control
itself).

Thanks,
~Niels