Subject: bug#37376: python-rpy2 is not reproducible [awaiting fix from core-updates]

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 10:13:45 +0900

See the output of diffoscope below:

diffoscope --exclude-command stat /gnu/store/lvmrrr9a5hr0xj26snygszlmgrdv6nma-python-rpy2-3.0.4-1.19868a8{,-check}
--- /gnu/store/lvmrrr9a5hr0xj26snygszlmgrdv6nma-python-rpy2-3.0.4-1.19868a8
+++ /gnu/store/lvmrrr9a5hr0xj26snygszlmgrdv6nma-python-rpy2-3.0.4-1.19868a8-check
├── lib
│ ├── python3.7
│ │ ├── site-packages
│ │ │ ├── __pycache__
│ │ │ │ ├── _rinterface_cffi.cpython-37.pyc
│ │ │ │ │┄ xxd not available in path. Falling back to Python hexlify.
│ │ │ │ │ @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
│ │ │ │ │ -420d0d0a000000003e42785d403e0000e3000000000000000000000000090000
│ │ │ │ │ +420d0d0a000000001342785d403e0000e3000000000000000000000000090000
│ │ │ │ │  00400000007324000000640064016c005a0065006a0164026403640464056406
│ │ │ │ │  6407640864098d075a0264015300290ae9000000004eda105f72696e74657266
│ │ │ │ │  6163655f63666669690126000073c804000000001d0d0000000f0000400d0001
│ │ │ │ │  10030000000f00010f0d000003110000000f0000590d0000031100001b010000
│ │ │ │ │  000f0000600d000003110000000f0000240d000003110000000f0001150d0000
│ │ │ │ │  03110000000f0000680d0000031100001b010000000f0000930d000003110000
│ │ │ │ │  000f0000290d0001090300010d0300010e0300001e1100001f110000000f0000

This is fixed on core-update by commit 6bbb37a5459.

Maxim