Package: debhelper Version: 7.4.15 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch the md5sums file created by dh_md5sums lists the files in an unsorted way (in the same sequence as they are printed by find).
this is a minor annoyance when comparing different builds of a package, eg a build from the vcs and a pbuilder build from the dsc -- the md5sums will always show up as different. i suggest to sort the list before passing it to xargs, thus creating more reproducible deb files. this is implemented in the attached patch; the LC_ALL=C can be dropped if it is already made sure that the build environment is language independent (otherwise, local sorting rules apply). -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.33-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.20-6 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii dpkg-dev 1.15.5.6 Debian package development tools ii file 5.04-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii html2text 1.3.2a-14 advanced HTML to text converter ii man-db 2.5.7-2 on-line manual pager ii perl 5.10.1-11 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-base 5.10.1-11 minimal Perl system ii po-debconf 1.0.16 tool for managing templates file t debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: ii dh-make 0.51 tool that converts source archives -- no debconf information -- To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers. -- Bene Gesserit axiom
--- dh_md5sums 2010-03-13 10:42:42.000000000 +0100
+++ dh_md5sums.orig 2010-03-13 10:49:26.000000000 +0100
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
$exclude.="! \\( $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} \\) ";
}
- complex_doit("(cd $tmp >/dev/null ; find . -type f $exclude ! -regex '.*/DEBIAN/.*' -printf '%P\\0' | LC_ALL=C sort -z | xargs -r0 md5sum > DEBIAN/md5sums) >/dev/null");
+ complex_doit("(cd $tmp >/dev/null ; find . -type f $exclude ! -regex '.*/DEBIAN/.*' -printf '%P\\0' | xargs -r0 md5sum > DEBIAN/md5sums) >/dev/null");
# If the file's empty, no reason to waste inodes on it.
if (-z "$tmp/DEBIAN/md5sums") {
doit("rm","-f","$tmp/DEBIAN/md5sums");
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