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diffoscope will try to get to the bottom of what makes files or
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directories different. It will recursively unpack archives of many kinds
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and transform various binary formats into more human readable form to
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compare them. It can compare two tarballs, ISO images, or PDF just as
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easily.
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It can be scripted through error codes, and a report can be produced
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with the detected differences. The report can be text or HTML. When no
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type of report has been selected, diffoscope defaults to write a text
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report on the standard output.
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diffoscope was initially started by the "reproducible builds" Debian
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project and now being developed as part of the wider "Reproducible
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Builds" initiative. It is meant to be able to quickly understand why two
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builds of the same package produce different outputs. diffoscope was
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previously named debbindiff.
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