[Reproducible-commits] [misc] 01/01: shuffle.sample explodes if the population is smaller than the sample size, so bound it.

[Chris Lamb]

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commit 26d7cf12f7f975877e80c9db00b8b1e1cda5413d
Author: Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org>
Date:   Fri Aug 26 01:17:56 2016 +0100

    shuffle.sample explodes if the population is smaller than the sample size, so bound it.
---
 filter-packages | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/filter-packages b/filter-packages
index e06ad80..7b29094 100755
--- a/filter-packages
+++ b/filter-packages
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ def main():
     parser.add_option('--filter-ftbfs', dest='filter_ftbfs', action='store_true',
         help="only match ftbfs packages")
     parser.add_option('--random', dest='random', type=int, metavar='N',
-        help="only print N random packages")
+        help="only print (at most) N random packages")
     parser.add_option('--url', dest='url', action='store_true',
         help="print url as well as the package name")
 
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ def main():
         results.append((x, y))
 
     if options.random is not None:
-        results = random.sample(results, options.random)
+        results = random.sample(results, min(options.random, len(results)))
 
     for x, y in results:
         print("".join((

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