Package: discount Version: 2.1.7-1 Severity: wishlist Tags: patches Forwarded: https://github.com/Orc/discount/pull/112 User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: randomness
Hi! As part of the “reproducible builds” project [1], we have identified that currently discount output was not deterministic when the Markdown source contained email addresses. Some Debian packages use discount to generate their documentation. This causes different builds of these packages to be different. We assume that the current behavior of randomly choosing between hex and decimal encoding for email addresses is intended to defeat email scrapers that understand one encoding but not the other. Could discount instead alternate every other character between hex and decimal? This would accomplish the same effect but in a deterministic manner. The attached patch changes the `mangle()` function accordingly. It has already been submitted upstream. [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds -- Lunar .''`. lu...@debian.org : :Ⓐ : # apt-get install anarchism `. `'` `-
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