On 11/5/20 8:49 am, Eli Schwartz wrote:
On 5/10/20 6:45 PM, anthraxx@archlinux.org wrote:
From: Levente Polyak <anthraxx@archlinux.org>
While iterating over the provides array, the find call for locating a shared library may result in listing multiple entries which by itself does not produce a stable deterministic order and may vary depending on the underlying filesystem. To provide a stable listing and a reproducible .PKGINFO file the result of find is piped to sort with a static LC_ALL=C localisation.
Wait, what. Do we have packages with libprovides providing multiple versions of a shared library?
I mean yes, given this possibility it does seem like we'd need to sort them, but still... why does this exist? :p
There was historically a package that provided an old compatibility library as well as the new one (you could only build against the new one). Really should have been a separate package. Patch looks good. A