Bug#851809: mono: please make the output of dh_makeclilibs reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Source: mono
Version: 4.6.2.7+dfsg-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: randomness toolchain
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-b...@lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed
that dh_makeclilibs generates "clilibs" files with a non-deterministic
order.

This affects packages such as gtk-sharp-beans. For example:

│ -gtk-sharp-beans 2.14.0.0__97a95fb57b03c03a libgtk-sharp-beans-cil
│  gio-sharp 2.14.0.0__35e10195dab3c99f libgtk-sharp-beans-cil
│ +gtk-sharp-beans 2.14.0.0__97a95fb57b03c03a libgtk-sharp-beans-cil

Patch attached.

 [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/


Regards,

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diff --git a/debian/dh_makeclilibs b/debian/dh_makeclilibs
index 976fd75..17cfa88 100755
--- a/debian/dh_makeclilibs
+++ b/debian/dh_makeclilibs
@@ -297,6 +297,7 @@ foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
     if (-e "$tmp/DEBIAN/clilibs") {
         doit("chmod", 644,   "$tmp/DEBIAN/clilibs");
         doit("chown", "0:0", "$tmp/DEBIAN/clilibs");
+        complex_doit("LC_ALL=C sort $tmp/DEBIAN/clilibs -o 
$tmp/DEBIAN/clilibs");
     }
 }