diffoscope 71 source package in Ubuntu

Changelog

diffoscope (71) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Chris Lamb ]
  * New features:
    - Add a machine-readable JSON output format. (Closes: #850791)
    - Show results from debugging packages last. (Closes: #820427)
    - Add a --max-text-report-size option. (Closes: #851147)
  * Bug fixes:
    - Clean all temp files in signal handler thread instead of attempting to
      bubble exception back to the main thread. (Closes: #852013)
    - Prevent FTBFS by loading fixtures as UTF-8 in case surrounding terminal
      is not Unicode-aware. (Closes: #852926)
    - Fix errors when comparing directories with non-directories.
      (Closes: #835641)
    - Fix behaviour of setting report maximums to zero (ie. no limits)
  * Tests:
    - Test the RPM "fallback" comparison.
    - Test the Deb{Changes,Buildinfo,Dsc} fallback comparisons.
    - Test --progress and --status-fd output.
    - Add tests for symlinks differing in destination.
    - When comparing two empty directories, ensure that the mtime of the
      directory is consistent to avoid non-deterministic failures.
    - Smoke test profiling output.
    - Ensure we ignore invalid JSON files correctly.
    - Ensure 2nd source of a Difference is a string, not just the 1st.
    - Don't report on test coverage for some internal error messages.
  * Misc:
    - Add docs about releasing signed tarballs.
    - Drop the incomplete list of external tools from README.rst.
    - Add debian/watch file with cryptographic signature verification.
    - Drop CpioContent command now that we use libarchive.
    - Use a singleton to manage our Comparator classes.
    - Many small optimisations and code cleanups.

  [ Brett Smith ]
  * diffoscope.diff: Improve FIFO writing robustness.

  [ Ximin Luo ]
  * Fix bug introduced in commit 36d1c964 that only worked "accidentally".
  * Fix lazy expression; filter is lazy in Python 3.

  [ Mattia Rizzolo ]
  * Override the debian-watch-file-in-native-package lintian tag.

  [ anthraxx ]
  * Arch package changed from cdrkit to cdrtools.

  [ Holger Levsen ]
  * Restore history section in README, explaining this was started in Debian.

 -- Chris Lamb <email address hidden>  Wed, 08 Feb 2017 13:02:01 +1300