Package: debhelper
Version: 6.0.5
Severity: minor
As discussed on debian-devel, it's nice to have deterministic output
for dependency fields. See the thread that started here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/02/msg00893.html
Thus I'd suggest you to fix the delsubstvar and addsubstvar functions
in /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Debhelper/Dh_Lib.pm to have deterministic
output in variables created by debhelper-based programs like
dh_pysupport (python:Depends) or dh_installdebconf (misc:Depends).
Replace the lines:
$line=join(", ", keys %items);
With:
$line=join(", ", sort keys %items);
Even nicer would be to sort with a custom algorithm so that
"package (>> 1)" sorts before "package (<< 2)" but I won't complain
if you discard this request. For reference, when I sorted the output of
dpkg-gencontrol I got precisly this request (that's why I'm mentionning
it): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=455520
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-1 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii dpkg-dev 1.14.17 package building tools for Debian
ii file 4.23-2 Determines file type using "magic"
ii html2text 1.3.2a-3 An advanced HTML to text converter
ii man-db 2.5.1-2 on-line manual pager
ii perl 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii po-debconf 1.0.12 manage translated Debconf template
debhelper recommends no packages.
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