On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 05:12:30PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote: > * Package name : lintian-sort > Description : reproducibly sort the Lintian tool's output > > The lintian-sort tool reorders the messages reported by the lintian(1) > Debian package analysis tool so that they are kept in the same order > between successive builds. This minimizes the changes that the package > maintainer sees using a file comparison tool (like diff(1)) to check if > any new problems have appeared or any of the old ones have been fixed. > > The lintian-sort tool keeps any additional information (lines starting > with "N:") together with the tags they describe; however, it takes care to > put the final "N: 5 tags overridden" message (along with any follow-up > descriptive lines) at the end.
Wouldn't it be much better to apply this change to lintian itself? -- Americans: write-in Cthulhu/Dagon today. They're still lesser evils than both of your leading candidates this year.
