[Reproducible-builds] Bug#779627: Bug#779627: Bug#779627: dh-strib-nondeterminism: Don't fail with errornous files

[Jérémy Bobbio]

Ole Streicher:
> On 19.03.2015 12:53, Jérémy Bobbio wrote:
> > No rules forbid invalid compressed files but dh_strip_nondeterminism
> > will try to normalize everything that can be normalized… Just like
> > dh_strip will work on all binary objects it can identify.
> 
> I would not argue against that it tries it -- but when it does not
> succeed, I do not see a reason why this should result in an error. Why
> can't it just silently take the next file?

I guess it could…

I'm still under the impression that valid files are the norm in Debian
packages. If a tool detects that a file is invalid, then it's probably
that something has gone wrong. And if that's the case, failing hard is
the best way to make people notice.

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