Package: emacs24 Version: 24.4+1-5 User: [email protected] Usertags: randomness
emacs24 is not currently reproducible, for many reasons. One of those reasons is that .el files are generated with hash tables and lists that are ordered stochastically. Sorting the lists or hashtables before generating the .el should avoid this particular problem. One example can be seen in the difference in /usr/share/emacs/24.4/lisp/finder-inf.el from here: https://reproducible.debian.net/dbd/unstable/amd64/emacs24_24.4+1-5.debbindiff.html compare the list after "convenience" here, which sorts the first 13 items differently on each build: convenience·(table·picture·emacs·makeinfo·flyspell·calc·keypad·cua-base·erc·diff-mode·compare-w·winner·windmove·vcursor·tmm·ruler-mode·repeat·pcomplete·minibuf-eldef·mb-depth·linum·kmacro·json·imenu·ido·ibuffer·hippie-exp·frameset·follow·filesets·filecache·ffap·ebuff-menu·desktop·delsel·dabbrev·completion·chistory·calculator·bs·autorevert·autoinsert·align) convenience·(emacs·keypad·cua-base·diff-mode·compare-w·calc·erc·table·picture·makeinfo·flyspell·winner·windmove·vcursor·tmm·ruler-mode·repeat·pcomplete·minibuf-eldef·mb-depth·linum·kmacro·json·imenu·ido·ibuffer·hippie-exp·frameset·follow·filesets·filecache·ffap·ebuff-menu·desktop·delsel·dabbrev·completion·chistory·calculator·bs·autorevert·autoinsert·align) This file is generated in lisp/Makefile.in with: $(emacs) -l finder \ --eval '(setq generated-finder-keywords-file (unmsys--file-name "$(srcdir)/finder-inf.el"))' \ -f finder-compile-keywords-make-dist $$wins which maps back to finder-compile-keywords in lisp/finder.el. Maybe someplace in that function can do a sort before emitting the file? Sorry to not be enough of an elisp hacker to provide a patch directly. --dkg
