Subject: Re: bug#71024: Update diffoscope to 267 (with xz bonus update)

From: Vagrant Cascadian <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 12:20:37 -0700

On 2024-05-20, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> On 2024-05-20, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
>> [email-masked] writes:
>>
>>> From: Vagrant Cascadian <[email-masked]>
>>>
>>> * gnu/packages/compression.scm (xz-5.4): New variable.
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> Or fixing diffoscope to work with the older xz version in master
> (5.2.x?) that guix is already using, which, now that I have spelled out
> all of the above, seems possibly a much better idea!

This was "fixed" in upstream diffoscope git by setting a version
requirement on the test, and I think this was a new test, so not exactly
a regression in test coverage.

  https://salsa.debian.org/reproducible-builds/diffoscope/-/commit/17c061e767e612540dd0227c3fd1f9cab460a78f

So we could build diffoscope from that commit instead, or manually apply
the patch, or just wait till the next diffoscope version.

live well,
  vagrant