Bug#705663: gedit-plugins: has different descriptions on each architecture unnecessarily

[Stuart Prescott]

Package: gedit-plugins
Version: 3.4.0-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

There was an interesting discussion about arch-specific package descriptions
today which led me to look through the archive for examples of this. I found
that this package has different descriptions on different architectures --
a total of 10 different descriptions can be found for this package across the
different release architectures. The difference is the ordering of the the
plugins in the description. Having different descriptions on each architecture
makes the Translations-en file unnecessarily large and also creates extra
work for translators.

The cause of the differences is that d/control is generated at "clean" time
using find(1) to locate the plugin descriptions. The problem is that find(1)
doesn't sort its output so the different buildds with different filesystems
etc will end up with the plugins listed in different orders.

Please consider either:

* creating the plugin list when building the source package so that the all
  builds will have the same plugin list to begin with

* piping the output of find through sort(1) so that the output is predictable

Thanks
Stuart

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (550, 'testing-updates'), (550, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (550, 'testing'), (60, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash