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