Notes for ffcx - reproducible builds result

Version annotated: 2019.2.0~git20210122.22ca4c0-2
Identified issues:
Identifier: randomness_in_objects_inv
Description Some Python documentation tool writes objects.inv files in a random order.
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There is also a translation issue that is being tracked in sphinxdoc_translations
Identifier: randomness_in_documentation_generated_by_sphinx
URL https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/SphinxIssues
Description Sphinx might output references to memory addresses and generate a json index file
with entries in random order or with non-deterministic values (eg. searchindex.js).
See https://bugs.debian.org/822197 for memory address issue
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searchindex.js needs sort_keys=True (jsonimpl.py) but the key values vary too.
Identifier: sphinxdoc_translations
URL https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/9778
Description Sphinxdoc translates some titles based on content of LANGUAGE, etc.
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https://bugs.debian.org/998059
 

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