Package: aptly
Version: 1.3.0-5~bpo9+1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
When using aptly to publish a package repository, some of the metadata
fields in the Packages and/or Sources files are written in an
unpredictable (and probably non-deterministic) order. This is mildly
annoying because it makes it difficult to compare two versions of the
file (e.g., with diff).
Example:
$ apt-get source hello
$ aptly repo create foo
$ aptly repo add foo hello_2.10-1.dsc
$ aptly publish repo -distribution foo -skip-signing foo debian
$ grep '^[A-Z]' .aptly/public/debian/dists/foo/main/source/Sources
Package: hello
Binary: hello
Version: 2.10-1
Maintainer: Santiago Vila <[email protected]>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20120311)
Architecture: any
Standards-Version: 3.9.6
Format: 3.0 (quilt)
Directory: pool/main/h/hello
Files:
Package-List:
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/
Checksums-Sha1:
Checksums-Sha256:
Checksums-Sha512:
$ aptly publish drop foo debian
$ aptly publish repo -distribution foo -skip-signing foo debian
$ grep '^[A-Z]' .aptly/public/debian/dists/foo/main/source/Sources
Package: hello
Binary: hello
Version: 2.10-1
Maintainer: Santiago Vila <[email protected]>
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 9.20120311)
Architecture: any
Standards-Version: 3.9.6
Format: 3.0 (quilt)
Directory: pool/main/h/hello
Files:
Homepage: http://www.gnu.org/software/hello/
Checksums-Sha256:
Checksums-Sha512:
Checksums-Sha1:
Package-List:
Notice that the order of the last five fields has changed, even though
the repository has not been modified in any way.
The same problem occurs with Packages files, but less often
(typically, only the 'Homepage' and 'Multi-Arch' fields are randomly
swapped.)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.5
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-debug'),
(500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/40 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages aptly depends on:
ii bzip2 1.0.6-8.1
ii gnupg1 1.4.21-4+deb9u1
ii gpgv1 1.4.21-4+deb9u1
ii libc6 2.24-11+deb9u3
ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.2+b1
aptly recommends no packages.
Versions of packages aptly suggests:
ii graphviz 2.38.0-17
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