Binary diffs for deb files

[James Hall]

I have just written a script called recompress-deb. This will extract a
deb, uncompress the gzipped files and preserve timestamps etc.

I recompressed two versions of the same app (as you would do if you
needed to make it rsyncable). Making a patch on uncompressed data
between these two files will preserve checksum when applied!

1824626627 1040794 synaptic_new.deb
1824626627 1040794 synaptic_patched.deb

I have posted updated scripts at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DiffDebScript 

James