Package: dictionaries-common Version: 1.28.12 Severity: wishlist User: reproducible-bui...@lists.alioth.debian.org Usertags: randomness X-Debbugs-Cc: reproducible-b...@lists.alioth.debian.org
Hello maintainers of dictionaries-common, While working on the “reproducible builds” effort [1], I have noticed that the content of the file '/var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen-ispell- dicts.el' is changing randomly. In the section 'debian-hunspell-equivs-alist', the value for the 'ca' key can toggle between 'ca' and 'catala8'. Because Perl does not have a reproducible order in a foreach statement (unless the keyword sort is used), it will be rather random which value for the key 'ca' will be set last. With the environment variable PERL_HASH_SEED [2] I've been able to generate a reproducible test case. I'm unsure what would be the correct value. If you can tell me the desired behaviour, I will provide a patch. Steps to reproduce: * Install a minimal Debian bookworm (a live image will work fine) * Ensure that no aspell, hunspell or ispell is present * Install 'hunspell-ca' * Run either of the following commands: ** PERL_HASH_SEED=1 update-dictcommon-hunspell ** PERL_HASH_SEED=2 update-dictcommon-hunspell * Look at the content of the file '/var/cache/dictionaries-common/emacsen- ispell-dicts.el' With kind regards, Roland Clobus [1]: https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds [2]: https://reproducible-builds.org/docs/stable-outputs/ -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.14.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages dictionaries-common depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.79 ii emacsen-common 3.0.4 ii libtext-iconv-perl 1.7-7+b1 dictionaries-common recommends no packages. Versions of packages dictionaries-common suggests: ii aspell 0.60.8-4 ii ispell 3.4.02-2 ii wamerican [wordlist] 2020.12.07-1 -- debconf information excluded -- debsums errors found: debsums: changed file /usr/share/perl5/Debian/DictionariesCommon.pm (from dictionaries-common package)