Bug#992060: pytsk: please make the build reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Source: pytsk
Version: 20200117-3
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: randomness
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0] we noticed that
pytsk could not be built reproducibly.

This is because it generated a pytsk3.c file in a nondeterministic
manner, specifically by naively iterating over a Python set()
structure.

Patch attached.

 [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/


Regards,

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