[debhelper-devel] Bug#774100: Bug#774100: debhelper: please ensure a stable order in shlibs files
Niels Thykier
niels at thykier.net
Mon Dec 29 09:29:48 UTC 2014
Control: tags -1 confirmed stretch sid
On 2014-12-28 18:54, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> Package: debhelper
> Version: 9.20141222
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: toolchain fileordering
>
> Hi!
>
> While working on the “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have noticed
> that some packages failed to build reproducibly because the order of
> libraries listed in shlibs varies depending on the order of files on the
> filesystem.
>
> The attached patch modifies dh_makeshlibs to sort the files, resulting
> in a stable order in shlibs files. This allows more packages to build
> reproducibly.
>
> [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
> [...]
Hi Jérémy,
Thanks for the patch. :)
We will apply this for stretch. Would it be helpful to you if we
uploaded this sooner to experimental?
Thanks,
~Niels
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