[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#892425: node-package-preamble: please make the output reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Hi Ben,

> Is this change generally useful to recipients of the upstream code base?
> Or is it specific to OS distributions?

It is generally useful, not specific to any OS.

> Does this constitute an improvement to the upstream code base? Or should
> remain a persistent patch in the Debian package?

Upstream. I've filed it here:

  https://github.com/mbostock/preamble/pull/4
 
> Does this change apply more generally to many JavaScript packages?

Not that I am aware of. It would only apply to a limit subset of
packages where:

  a) We use the output during a package build
  b) That output ends up in the resulting binaries
  c) The output actually is not reproducible (ie. dates).

(The only other example I can recall right now is in uglifyjs which
has non- determinstic dictionary ordering IIRC.)


Regards,

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