Re: Make output of texinfo index deterministic

2015-07-05 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 07:36:26AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: Dear all, This appears to happen because the index sort is not stable with respect to the line number, resulting in output non-determinstically changing from:

Re: Make output of texinfo index deterministic

2015-07-05 Thread Chris Lamb
Hi Pat, I used the @-command name to disambiguate, as it should always be different otherwise the entries are in the same index and number is enough to have a reproducible sorting. Ah, neat. Thanks for working on this, really appreciated. Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris

Re: Make output of texinfo index deterministic

2015-06-30 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 12:45:07AM +0100, Gavin Smith wrote: On 29 June 2015 at 21:08, Chris Lamb la...@debian.org wrote: (Replying quickly, apologies for terseness..) Do you have a list of manuals that exhibit this issue, and an explanation on how this can be triggered?

Re: Make output of texinfo index deterministic

2015-06-29 Thread Chris Lamb
(Replying quickly, apologies for terseness..) Do you have a list of manuals that exhibit this issue, and an explanation on how this can be triggered? https://reproducible.debian.net/dbd/unstable/amd64/mmm-mode_0.5.2-2.debbindiff.html or via http://mmm-mode.sourceforge.net/ Regards, --

Re: Make output of texinfo index deterministic

2015-06-29 Thread Gavin Smith
On 29 June 2015 at 21:08, Chris Lamb la...@debian.org wrote: (Replying quickly, apologies for terseness..) Do you have a list of manuals that exhibit this issue, and an explanation on how this can be triggered?

Re: Make output of texinfo index deterministic

2015-06-29 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 07:36:26AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: Dear all, down here at Debian there is an activity to create reproducible buillds, absolutely reproducible. Thus we try to remove indetermancy as far as possible. In this case, texinfo indices are not deterministic. They

Make output of texinfo index deterministic

2015-06-28 Thread Norbert Preining
Dear all, down here at Debian there is an activity to create reproducible buillds, absolutely reproducible. Thus we try to remove indetermancy as far as possible. In this case, texinfo indices are not deterministic. I forward you the patch by Chris Lamb (in Cc) in case you consider it worth

Re: Make output of texinfo index deterministic

2015-06-28 Thread Chris Lamb
I forward you the patch by Chris Lamb (in Cc) in case you consider it worth including. (Probably not needed here but just in case it helps I have signed the GNU copyright assignment under la...@gnu.org / ch...@chris-lamb.co.uk) Regards, -- ,''`. : :' : Chris Lamb `.