difftastic for Debian

Wilfred/difftastic — A structural diff tool that compares files based on syntax rather than lines, understanding 30+ programming languages. — packaged for Debian as part of latest-debs.

Want your own project packaged and maintained this way? See the latest-debs packaging service.

Install

Via the latest-debs apt repository:

sudo extrepo enable latest-debs
sudo apt update
sudo apt install difftastic

Or download a .deb from the Releases page:

sudo dpkg -i difftastic_*.deb

Supported distributions & architectures

• Debian Bookworm (12), Trixie (13), Forky (14/testing), Sid (unstable)
• amd64, arm64, armhf, i386, ppc64el, riscv64, s390x — whichever architectures Wilfred/difftastic actually publishes a Linux binary for

Disclaimer

Unofficial, volunteer-run packaging — best-effort, no SLA.

• Update cadence: publishing a release normally triggers an immediate apt-repo rebuild via webhook; the ~6h scheduled run is the fallback. GitHub outages, a missing trigger token, rate limits, or upstream archive changes can delay or skip an update; there is no freshness guarantee.
• Draft releases: every build is published as a draft that a maintainer reviews before promoting, so a new version can lag its build.

For issues with difftastic itself, see Wilfred/difftastic.