Bug#779090: gtk-doc-tools: please make the build reproducible

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

Control: tags -1 -patch

Hi Chris,

On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 12:53:06 +0000 Chris Lamb <lamby at debian.org> wrote:
> Source: gtk-doc-tools
> Version: 1.21-2
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: toolchain randomness
> X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
> 
> Hi,
> 
> While working on the "reproducible builds" effort [1], we have noticed
> that gtk-doc-tools does not generate deterministic output.
> 
> Patch attached.

Just saw this bug when working on the update to gtk-doc 1.26. (Un)fortunately,
upstream has switched to Python in this version, so I can't ship your patch. I'm
not sure if the output is still unreproducible, but the logic for this patch is
now at gtkdoc/mkdb.py. It's possible that this is fixed as I see some sorted()
calls there, but I haven't taken a deeper look.

Cheers,
Emilio