Bug#843652: ITP: lintian-sort -- reproducibly sort the Lintian tool's output

[Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>]

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?

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