package uploaded to our repo

Chris Lamb lamby at debian.org
Mon Feb 13 20:32:05 UTC 2017


Ximin Luo wrote:

> > can you please explain why you did this?
> 
> Yes, it'd be good to cite some real-world cases where you've
> seen this type of non-determinism happen

It's *extremely* common; I've sent 100s of patches solving non-determinstic
Python dict ordering patches to the BTS. This way just ensures the
non-determinism is "deterministic" in our test framework.


Regards,

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