diffoscope - Debian Package Tracker

general

source: diffoscope (main)
version: 334
maintainer: Reproducible builds folks (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Chris Lamb [DMD] – Holger Levsen [DMD] – Mattia Rizzolo [DMD]
arch: all
std-ver: 4.7.4
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 177
oldstable: 240+deb12u1
stable: 297+deb13u1
stable-bpo: 306~bpo13+1
testing: 333
unstable: 334

versioned links

177: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
240+deb12u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
297+deb13u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
306~bpo13+1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
333: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
334: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

diffoscope (29 bugs: 0, 12, 17, 0)
diffoscope-minimal (1 bugs: 0, 0, 1, 0)

action needed

lintian reports 1 error and 1 warning high

Lintian reports 1 error and 1 warning about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2026-10-17 Last update: 2026-10-17 04:31

Fails to build during reproducibility testing normal

A package building reproducibly enables third parties to verify that the source matches the distributed binaries. It has been identified that this source package produced different results, failed to build or had other issues in a test environment. Please read about how to improve the situation!

Created: 2026-10-16 Last update: 2026-10-20 10:02

Depends on packages which need a new maintainer normal

The packages that diffoscope depends on which need a new maintainer are:

db-defaults (#1055344)
- Recommends: db-util db-util
- Build-Depends: db-util

Created: 2019-11-22 Last update: 2026-10-20 08:00

version in VCS is newer than in repository, is it time to upload? normal

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have a new changelog entry (version 335, distribution UNRELEASED) and new commits in its VCS. You should consider whether it's time to make an upload.

Here are the relevant commit messages:

commit ee5fc6137c28e9bf52f6687c650b1e75a7174615
Author: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Oct 19 09:32:05 2026 -0700

    Support the dumppdf binary being called dumppdf.py on the host system.

commit 604c573f2cd644bba8eec7e73c83e1b1daa121ac
Author: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
Date:   Mon Oct 19 09:31:24 2026 -0700

    Fix a silly "prepend" typo.

commit d0db51f0560eb0acf8850d1eb9e9686b45bb0579
Author: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
Date:   Fri Oct 16 08:57:51 2026 -0700

    Open new changelog entry for version 335.
    
    Gbp-Dch: ignore

Created: 2019-05-22 Last update: 2026-10-19 17:51

9 open merge requests in Salsa normal

There are 9 open merge requests for this package on Salsa. You should consider reviewing and/or merging these merge requests.

Created: 2026-09-28 Last update: 2026-10-08 22:34

testing migrations

excuses:
- Migration status for diffoscope (333 to 334): Waiting for test results or another package, or too young (no action required now - check later)
- Issues preventing migration:
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for bdebstrap/0.8.1-2: amd64: Pass, arm64: Test triggered, armhf: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻), s390x: Pass
- ∙ ∙ Autopkgtest for diffoscope/334: amd64: Pass, arm64: Pass, armhf: Pass, i386: Pass, ppc64el: Pass, riscv64: Pass, s390x: Failed (not a regression) ♻ (reference ♻)
- ∙ ∙ Too young, only 3 of 5 days old
- Additional info (not blocking):
- ∙ ∙ Piuparts tested OK - https://piuparts.debian.org/sid/source/d/diffoscope.html
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on amd64 - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on arm64 - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on armhf - info
- ∙ ∙ Reproduced on i386 - info
- Not considered

news

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[2026-10-16] Accepted diffoscope 334 (source) into unstable (Chris Lamb)
[2026-10-15] diffoscope 333 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-10-09] Accepted diffoscope 333 (source) into unstable (Chris Lamb)
[2026-10-05] diffoscope 332 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-09-28] Accepted diffoscope 332 (source) into unstable (Chris Lamb)
[2026-09-25] Accepted diffoscope 331 (source) into unstable (Chris Lamb)
[2026-09-25] diffoscope 330 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-09-21] Accepted diffoscope 330 (source) into unstable (Chris Lamb)
[2026-08-21] Accepted diffoscope 329 (source) into unstable (Chris Lamb)
[2026-08-14] Accepted diffoscope 328 (source) into unstable (Chris Lamb)
[2026-08-13] diffoscope REMOVED from testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-08-07] Accepted diffoscope 327 (source) into unstable (Chris Lamb)
[2026-08-05] diffoscope 326 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-07-30] Accepted diffoscope 326 (source) into unstable (Chris Lamb)
[2026-07-23] diffoscope 325 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-07-17] Accepted diffoscope 325 (source) into unstable (Chris Lamb)
[2026-07-16] diffoscope 324 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-07-10] Accepted diffoscope 324 (source) into unstable (Chris Lamb)
[2026-07-07] diffoscope 323 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-06-30] Accepted diffoscope 323 (source) into unstable (Chris Lamb)
[2026-06-26] Accepted diffoscope 322 (source) into unstable (Chris Lamb)
[2026-06-25] diffoscope 321 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-06-19] Accepted diffoscope 321 (source) into unstable (Chris Lamb)
[2026-06-19] Accepted diffoscope 320 (source) into unstable (Chris Lamb)
[2026-06-18] diffoscope 319 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-06-12] Accepted diffoscope 319 (source) into unstable (Chris Lamb)
[2026-05-07] diffoscope 318 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-05-01] Accepted diffoscope 318 (source) into unstable (Chris Lamb)
[2026-04-13] diffoscope 317 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2026-04-10] Accepted diffoscope 317 (source) into unstable (Chris Lamb)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 32 33
RC: 0
I&N: 12
M&W: 20 21
F&P: 0
patch: 0

links

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ubuntu

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version: 330
3 bugs