[debhelper-devel] Bug#766384: debhelper: please register conffiles in a stable order

[Jérémy Bobbio]

Package: debhelper
Version: 9.20141010
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: toolchain fileordering

Hi!

As part of the “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have noticed that
dh_installdeb is registering conffiles depending on the file system
order. This prevents some package from building reproducibly.

Attached is a patch that will sort the list of files, giving a stable
output.

 [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds

Thanks,
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