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commit b8796e7b4de27a2de42ad0ee23dc435bac29a53d
Author: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
Date: Thu Oct 8 13:14:02 2026 -0700
Reflect that the use of the case-match feature requires Python 3.10+.
We can likely back out of this without too much difficulty by rewriting
this method.
commit f468e54e25048f6855191ef40fb9f391d916973b
Author: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
Date: Thu Oct 8 13:13:03 2026 -0700
Re-order various parts of the tar comparator to make it easier to progressively delve into the functionality.
commit b615431a57c92493acf8f17f249ad497f1e5168c
Author: Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <josch@debian.org>
Date: Tue Jun 30 18:43:38 2026 +0200
diffoscope/comparators/tar.py: support for POSIX.1-2001 PAX headers
Uses python tarfile to find differences in PAX headers.
The libarchive based reader is not able to spot differences in
POSIX.1-2001 PAX headers. libarchive itself is capable of reading this
information (the archive_entry_xattr_* functions) but it doesn't seem to
expose the relevant functions via libarchive.ffi.
The PAX header stores information like
* very long filenames and linknames
* extended attributes
* POSIX ACLs
* atime and ctime with sub-second resolution
* GNU/Hurd translators
* sparse files
* files larger than 8 GiB
* device major and minor numbers with more than 21 bits
* uid/gid with more than 21 bits
If libarchive is unable to see a difference between the tarballs we fall
back to the Python tarfile module and try to print more information.
commit 02e069c321ef6d2c8488f1627d15fd7c9cf6fc30
Author: Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>
Date: Mon Sep 28 13:41:59 2026 -0700
Open new changelog entry for version 333.
Gbp-Dch: ignore
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