Bug#880201: marked as done (www.debian.org: Release notes formats (html, pdf, txt) are shown in different order for each release)
Your message dated Tue, 31 Oct 2017 14:48:52 +0000
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and subject line Debian WWW CVS commit by dmn fixes #880201
has caused the Debian Bug report #880201,
regarding www.debian.org: Release notes formats (html, pdf, txt) are shown in different order for each release
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Package: www.debian.org
Severity: minor
The order of the formats in releases notes is different for every release:
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/releasenotes
shows the release notes available ordered by arch and txt pdf html
https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/releasenotes
shows the release notes available ordered by arch and pdf html txt
https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/releasenotes not yet available
All those pages are built using the Perl sub permute_as_matrix_new
present in
https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/template/debian/release.wml?view=markup
Maybe the cause is L176 of that script:
foreach $ext (keys %formats) {
Does the "keys" function return the values always in the same order? (not sure
about this point,
I've read http://perldoc.perl.org/functions/keys.html but I didn't understand
it very well, and I'm not
a Perl programmer).
If this is the issue, the solution would be to change that line to something
sorting the output of keys.
Former releases (not built dynamically anymore) also present the problem:
https://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/releasenotes
txt html pdf
https://www.debian.org/releases/squeeze/releasenotes
txt pdf html
https://www.debian.org/releases/lenny/releasenotes
html pdf txt
but since they belong to releases that reached their end of life, maybe their
releases notes pages can stay like that.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=es_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=es:en_GB (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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--- Begin Message ---
This bug was closed by dmn in the webwml CVS repository:
https://www.debian.org/devel/website/using_cvs
Note that it might take some time until www.debian.org has been updated.
CVSROOT: /cvs/webwml
Module name: webwml
Changes by: dmn 17/10/31 14:48:52
Modified files:
russian/doc : user-manuals.wml
Log message:
russian translation update
Modified files:
english/template/debian: release.wml
Log message:
sort release notes formats
due to Perl's hash key order randomization feature, the keys come out
in a pseudo-random order every time. adding 'sort' sorts the keys and
makes the order stable.
Closes: #880201 -- www.debian.org: Release notes formats (html, pdf, txt) are
shown in different order for each release
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