Notes for pymatgen - reproducible builds result

Version annotated: 2022.0.14+dfsg1-1
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: captures_varying_number_of_build_path_directory_components
Description eg. /tmp/buildd/one/two vs /tmp/buildd/one/two/three can result in relative URIs (eg. ../../../usr/some/share/dir) differing.
 

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