Recent advances in cross building src:perl

Wookey wookey at wookware.org
Mon Jan 25 13:06:38 UTC 2016


+++ Neil Williams [2016-01-25 08:48 +0000]:
> On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 20:15:46 +0200
> Niko Tyni <ntyni at debian.org> wrote:

> Even then, this data must be compared in-memory, not as files. The
> upstream changes routinely change the ordering of the output which
> makes the output of `diff` useless.

Is that actually still true. Perl people I talked to ages ago said
'yes we could and should trivially sort the hash then at least they
would be consistently ordered so diff would work'. Maybe no-one ever
did that, in which case someone probably should.


Wookey
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