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Notes about issue randomness_in_berkeley_db_files in buster

Identifier: randomness_in_berkeley_db_files
Suites: unstable / trixie / bookworm / bullseye / buster / experimental
Description: Creating an empty Berkeley DB file (or ones with the same contents) results
in a different file.
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This comes from:
https://sources.debian.org/src/db5.3/latest/src/os/os_uid.c/#L20 but
it's unclear where to "set" this only on the creation case - we definitely
want the uid to change if one adds stuff later.
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Compounding this, the debugging tools *additionally* return random data for
the uid/hash fields (!), so presumably srand is being called when you do a
"db_dump -d a /path/to/my.db" which is obviously broken.
Packages in 'buster' known to be affected by this issue:
(the 1/4 most-popular ones (within this issue) are underlined)

FTBR icon 2 unreproducible packages in buster/amd64: mmorph gbrowse+

 

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