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Bug#843652: marked as done (RFP: lintian-sort -- reproducibly sort the Lintian tool's output)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #843652,
regarding RFP: lintian-sort -- reproducibly sort the Lintian tool's output
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>

* Package name    : lintian-sort
  Version         : 0.1.0
  Upstream Author : Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
* URL             : https://devel.ringlet.net/textproc/lintian-sort/
* License         : BSD-2-clause
  Programming Lang: Perl
  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.

G'luck,
Peter

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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

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