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[Jordi Mallach <jordi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 01:55:52PM -0000, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> What's a debdiff file?  Can you add an example?
> 
> And would you want it to be coloured in the same manner as normal diff
> and patch files?

debdiff is a program that generates diffs in source and binary debian
packages. For source, the output is just unidiff, but for binaries it also
lists extra/missing files between packages, and differences in the control
headers (using wdiff format).

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1300565

Title:
  please syntax highlight debdiff files

Status in nano package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  nano source highlights diff and patch files.  It would be nice if it
  did the same with debdiff files.

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