Source: tardiff Section: utils Priority: optional Maintainer: Axel Beckert Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13) Standards-Version: 4.6.1 Homepage: http://tardiff.coolprojects.org/ Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/tardiff.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/tardiff Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: tardiff Architecture: all Depends: libtext-diff-perl, ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends} Suggests: diffoscope-minimal | diffoscope Description: Tarball file list comparison tool TarDiff is a simple tool that compares the contents of two tarballs and reports primarily file list differences found between them. . It can also list files which only had modified content, but are present in both tarballs. It though does not show the actually content differences, just which files differ. . Its use is mainly for release managers who can use it as a QA tool to make sure no files have accidentally been left over or were added by mistake. TarDiff supports compressed tarballs, diff statistics and suppression of GNU autotool changes. . For more detailed diffs like e.g. finding different timestamps inside a tar ball or similar minimal changes which still cause differences in hashsums or make a few bytes size difference, please have a look at diffoscope or the diffoscope-minimal package. Diffoscope can also compare many more file types than just tarballs, but also has more hard dependencies and a lot of optional dependencies for specific file formats.