Hi, On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Mike Bird wrote: > > I won't revert anything unless you come up with some proof that this > > causes severe issues that will disturb the lenny release process. > > Raphael, > > What please is the benefit of unnecessarily reordering dependencies > and leaving everyone on tenterhooks as to whether it will change > installation outcomes? (If this has already been explained I apologize > for overlooking it.)
1/ Sorting makes the output deterministic, and this means that (potential) problems are more likely to be reproduced by everybody (whatever the architecture, etc.) 2/ debdiff uses wdiff to show changes on field values and wdiff gives spurious differences if the sole difference between both values is a different order. Thus debdiff output is more useful with ordered Depends fields. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
