RFP: lintian-sort -- reproducibly sort the Lintian tool's output

[Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>]

Hi,

> 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.

> Wouldn't it be much better to apply this change to lintian itself?

Lintian now orders tags before printing. That resolves the most
relevant feature requested here. The output was already deterministic,
but depended on the order in which checks that had been sorted were
run:

    https://bugs.debian.org/944807

This is the Lintian commit message:

    https://salsa.debian.org/lintian/lintian/commit/e0f76bdd6bf57d84ba2e7b478973ddc8b84df950

Besides the bug in Lintian, this message also closes an RFP bug that
had been cloned. Please re-open the RFP bug if we still need a second
tool.

To help make Lintian better, please file merge requests on Salsa. Thanks!

Kind regards,
Felix Lechner