Bug#840100: wims-help: please make the build reproducible

[Chris Lamb]

Source: wims-help
Version: 4.01-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
User: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: fileordering
X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-builds at lists.alioth.debian.org

Hi,

Whilst working on the Reproducible Builds effort [0], we noticed
that wims-help could not be built reproducibly as the `find` call
iterates in (non-determinstic) filesystem ordering.

Patch attached.

 [0] https://reproducible-builds.org/


Regards,

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--- a/debian/make-copyright.py	2016-10-08 10:41:54.066419820 +0100
--- b/debian/make-copyright.py	2016-10-08 10:44:22.168251923 +0100
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
     indexes=Popen("find %s -type f -name INDEX" %path, shell=True, stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0]
     indexes=indexes.strip().split("\n")
     files=""
-    for i in indexes:
+    for i in sorted(indexes):
         d=os.path.dirname(i)
         f=os.path.basename(i)
         author=Popen("sed -n 's/^author=\\(.*\\)/\\1/ p' %s" %i, shell=True, stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0].strip()