Re: [Tails-dev] Diffoscope version

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Author: u
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To: tails-dev
Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Diffoscope version
Hi!

anonym:
> Shawn Nock:
>> u writes:
>>> Now you are in a great position to help Tails improve its
>>> reproducibility! Please install
>>> `diffoscope` [8] version 83 or higher. If you
>>> run Debian Stretch, that is:
>>>
>>>     echo 'deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main' \
>>>       | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/stretch-backports.list && \
>>>     sudo apt update && \
>>>     sudo apt -o APT::Install-Suggests="true" \
>>>              -o APT::Install-Recommends="true" \
>>>              install diffoscope

>>>
>>
>> This procedure seems to install diffoscope 78 on my Strech system.
>
> Argh, indeed! The last command should be:
>
>     sudo apt -o APT::Install-Suggests="true" \
>              -o APT::Install-Recommends="true" \
>              install diffoscope/stretch-backports

>
> Sorry for the inconvenience!


So the month of August did not motivate many people (yet) to try the
build. So maybe, we should indeed publish a blog post with the updated
instructions in the beginning of september and post a link to this via
Twitter? Thoughts?

Cheers!
u.