[Reproducible-builds] Fun with cwidget documentation

[Jérémy Bobbio]

Andrew Ayer:
> Wow, nice work digging through this madness!
> 
> On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 17:42:32 +0200
> Jérémy Bobbio <lunar at debian.org> wrote:
> 
> >  * discount: make `mangle()` deterministic (e.g. by using a PRNG
> >    seeded by something like input file size).
> 
> This option seems the most sane and most similar to existing behavior.
> For simplicity, I wouldn't even bother with a PRNG, but just alternate
> every other character between hex encoding and decimal encoding.  I
> assume that the current code is trying to defeat an email address
> scraper that supports one encoding but not the other, and simply
> alternating between the two encodings would accomplish the same
> effect.

Makes a lot of sense.
 
> The upstream author seems to be responsive on GitHub. I can try to make
> the case for this behavior there.

As I don't have a GitHub account, that would be great. Attached is a
patch if you'd rather submit a pull request. Hack at will.

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