Bug#847020: mailfront: please make the build reproducible (fileordering, umask)

[Valerie R Young]

Package: mailfront
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: fileordering umask
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org,
spectranaut at riseup.net

Dear Maintainer,

While working on the "reproducible builds" effort [1], we have noticed
that mailfront could not be built reproducibly.
Specifically, the permissions of some directories are influenced by the
umask and the order of the md5sums file can vary.

The attached patch fixes those issues.

Sincerely,
Valerie

[1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-rc8-touchpad (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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