Notes for texlive-bin - reproducible builds result

Version annotated: 2021.20210626.59705-1
Identified issues:
Identifier: random_order_generated_by_stateless_iterators_in_lua
URL http://www.lua.org/pil/7.3.html
Description The stateless iterator in lua uses an arbitrary order (by design)
A possible work-around is: http://lua-users.org/wiki/SortedIteration
Bugs noted: 1009196+: "texlive-binaries: Reproducible content of .fmt files"
Comments: To reproduce:
SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH=`date +%s`;for i in `seq 1 50`; do luahbtex -ini -jobname=luahbtex -progname=luahbtex luatex.ini;md5sum * >> /tmp/log; done; sort -u /tmp/log
 

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