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Re: CPython hash randomization makes some Python packages unreproducible

From	Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.maint.python
Subject	Re: CPython hash randomization makes some Python packages unreproducible
Date	2016-04-11 20:20 +0200
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On Apr 09, 2016, at 08:11 PM, Julien Cristau wrote:

>FWIW I think that's a bad idea.  A number of packages run their test
>suite at build time, and running the tests with hash randomization
>enabled seems to me like something we shouldn't give up.

Completely agreed.  Although we're in the long tail now, during the bulk of
the Python 3 transition, we found real bugs when hash randomization was
enabled.

>Couldn't packages where the binary packages contents depend on the hash seed
>just set one themselves?

+1

-Barry

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CPython hash randomization makes some Python packages unreproducible Cara <ceridwen.mailing.lists@gmail.com> - 2016-04-09 19:30 +0200
  Re: CPython hash randomization makes some Python packages  unreproducible Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> - 2016-04-09 20:20 +0200
    Re: CPython hash randomization makes some Python packages  unreproducible Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2016-04-11 20:20 +0200

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