[Reproducible-builds] Depends is non-deterministically python3.5 or python3

[Scott Kitterman]

On Friday, October 09, 2015 09:49:21 PM Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Friday, October 09, 2015 09:46:48 PM Chris Lamb wrote:
> > retitle 801376 pyversions emits requested versions in non-determinstic
> > order
> > reassign 801376 python3-defaults 3.4.3-6
> > tags 801376 + patch
> > thanks
> > 
> > Chris Lamb wrote:
> > > > dh-python generates a Depends line which depends on the locale
> > > > setting
> > > 
> > > Alas this is not correct; I can reproduce without varying the locale.
> > 
> > Patch attached (NB. in python3-defaults..)
> 
> Thanks for the patch.  I think it's not quite what we want though.  While
> this will make things reproducible in the short run, depending on if the
> default is the lower or higher version when there is more than one
> supported version, I think the result will be non-deterministic.
> 
> Based on the behavior seen in dh-python, I think we want the default version
> last.  So think that now we want:
> 
> 3.5 3.4
> 
> Once 3.5 is default we'd want
> 
> 3.4 3.5
> 
> The we'd drop 3.4 and get:
> 
> 3.5
> 
> Someday was add 3.6 (as non-default) and start the process over:
> 
> 3.6 3.5
> 
> It's getting late here, so I don't intend to work on this today, but I'll
> take a shot at it tomorrow (Saturday).
> 
> Scott K

I've fixed this as described above and uploaded to experimental.  I would 
appreciate it if you could verify this resolves the problem.  If so, I'll 
upload ot unstable too.

Scott K