On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 01:27:12PM +0100, Roland Clobus wrote: > Hello texinfo maintainers, > > While working on reproducible live images [1], I noticed that the sort order > in the file /usr/share/info/dir is unstable when nearly identical entries > are added. > > The order of the pairs 'diff', 'diff3' and 'who', 'whoami' was not > guaranteed to be in dictionary order (i.e. shorter first) > > Attached you find a diff based on the git checkout for version 7.1, which > includes a test case that demonstrates the issue. > > With kind regards, > Roland Clobus > > [1] https://reproducible-builds.org/
Thanks for explaining the problem and sending the fix. I've applied it in commit 01b5a4b9c33bef (2024-02-18).
