[issue29417] Sort entries in foo.dist-info/RECORD

[Douglas Greiman]

New submission from Douglas Greiman:

Feature Request: It would make reproducible builds easier if the [package].dist-info/RECORD files were sorted in some deterministic way.  For example, building a Docker image twice and comparing the results.

The current ordering seems to be arbitrary, and I didn't find any PEPs that specify one way or the other.

I'm not sure what would need to be updated for this change.  The whole pip/distutils/setuptools ecosystem is a bit murky.

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components: Distutils
messages: 286729
nosy: dgreiman, dstufft, eric.araujo
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Sort entries in foo.dist-info/RECORD
type: enhancement

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