Notes for pgloader - reproducible builds result

Version annotated: 3.3.1+dfsg-1
Identified issues:
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
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.
Comments: Looks like the .fasl compiled lisp intermediate files contain the build time, then the whole thing gets compressed when combined in the pgloader binary so it becomes opaque at the package diffoscope level.
 

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