[Reproducible-builds] Bug#801864: ncurses: please make the build reproducible

[Esa Peuha]

Source: ncurses
Version: 6.0+20150810-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: locale
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi!

While working on the “reproducible builds” effort [1], we have noticed
that ncurses could not be built reproducibly.

The problem is that the sort order of keys.list is affected by the
locale of the build environment. Here is a patch to fix that.

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