Source: bsdiff Section: utils Priority: optional Maintainer: tony mancill Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), libbz2-dev Standards-Version: 4.6.0 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/bsdiff Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/bsdiff.git Homepage: https://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: bsdiff Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Provides: bspatch Description: generate/apply a patch between two binary files bsdiff and bspatch are tools for building and applying patches to binary files. By using suffix sorting (specifically, Larsson and Sadakane's qsufsort) and taking advantage of how executable files change, bsdiff routinely produces binary patches 50-80% smaller than those produced by Xdelta, and 15% smaller than those produced by .RTPatch (a commercial patch tool).