Bug#820553: RFP: blockstack-server -- A server that handles the core functionality of building the global Internet database

2016-04-09 Thread Carlo Stemberger
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: blockstack-server Version : Git Upstream Author : Muneeb Ali , Jude Nelson * URL : https://github.com/blockstack/blockstack-server * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : A server that hand

Re: CPython hash randomization makes some Python packages unreproducible

2016-04-09 Thread Julien Cristau
On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 13:25:39 -0400, Cara wrote: > I think a better solution is disabling hash randomization by setting > PYTHONHASHSEED=0 when building Python packages with CPython for Debian, > probably somewhere in dh-python. Note that this isn't necessary for > PyPy, which doesn't have has

CPython hash randomization makes some Python packages unreproducible

2016-04-09 Thread Cara
I've been investigating why some Python packages are unreproducible[1] and have discovered that in some cases the problem can be traced to CPython's hash randomization. This happens any time a package writes files that depend on the iteration order over dictionaries or sets. An example is python-p