[Pkg-vala-maintainers] Bug#802528: [Reproducible-builds] Bug#802528: valac: make the generated C files reproducible

[Niko Tyni]

Control: tag -1 - patch

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 04:09:16PM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:

> But doesn't the change from HashSet to List end up changing the behavior
> with regard to multiple children of the same class?
> 
> That is, if it's a List, then the same class can appear multiple times,
> whereas if it's a set, i think it just gets added once.

Yes, I think you're right. Thanks for catching that! I suspect it doesn't
really matter here, but I'm not quite sure, and it certainly isn't safe
as a general fix.
 
> The usual approach would be to sort the output where it's produced from
> the HashedSet, and not to change the data structure itself to allow
> duplicates.

Sure, this just seemed such a nice solution :)

Anyway, removing the 'patch' tag for now.
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