[Rsbackup-maint] Bug#1117614: Bug#1117614: rsbackup: please make the build reproducible

[Richard Kettlewell]

https://github.com/ewxrjk/rsbackup/commit/723b22574550cc9e04c8c8f11ddceb8524604c76

ttfn/rjk

On 08/10/2025 17:48, Chris Lamb wrote:
> Source: rsbackup
> Version: 10.0-3
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
> User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Usertags: filesystem
> X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-bugs at lists.alioth.debian.org
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed that
> rsbackup could not be built reproducibly.
> 
> This was because the DEBIAN/md5sums file was generated by naively
> iterating over the file system without piping the outout via sort(1).
> (There is a call to sort, but only for one of the binary packages.)
> 
> Patch attached.
> 
>   [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
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