Subject: bug#42289: recursive import does not dort alphabetically

From: Hartmut Goebel <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2020 09:53:05 +0200

In most gnu/packages/*.scm files are (expected to be) sorted alphabetically.

Now when importing some packages recursivly, packages are output in
order of the dependency graph, thus authors need to sort them manually.

Example (requires the hex.pm importer from
<http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=42180>:

$ ./pre-inst-env guix import hexpm -r idna | grep define-public
(define-public erlang-unicode-util-compat
(define-public erlang-idna
$ ./pre-inst-env guix import hexpm -r idna | grep define-public |
LC_ALL=C sort --check
sort: -:2: disorder: (define-public erlang-idna

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Regards
Hartmut Goebel

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