dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index c44632ff..358282e4 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ debhelper (7.4.16) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     can efficiently be changed to the more sane default of acting on only
     packages that can be built for the current architecture. This change
     is mostly useful when using minimal rules files with dh. Closes: #572077
+  * dh_md5sums: Sort to ensure stable, more diffable order. Closes: #573702
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:53:27 -0500
 
diff --git a/dh_md5sums b/dh_md5sums
index da00090b..ba1adf4f 100755
--- a/dh_md5sums
+++ b/dh_md5sums
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ foreach my $package (@{$dh{DOPACKAGES}}) {
 		$exclude.="! \\( $dh{EXCLUDE_FIND} \\) ";
 	}
 	
-	complex_doit("(cd $tmp >/dev/null ; find . -type f $exclude ! -regex '.*/DEBIAN/.*' -printf '%P\\0' | xargs -r0 md5sum > DEBIAN/md5sums) >/dev/null");
+	complex_doit("(cd $tmp >/dev/null ; find . -type f $exclude ! -regex '.*/DEBIAN/.*' -printf '%P\\0' | LC_ALL=C sort -z | xargs -r0 md5sum > DEBIAN/md5sums) >/dev/null");
 	# If the file's empty, no reason to waste inodes on it.
 	if (-z "$tmp/DEBIAN/md5sums") {
 		doit("rm","-f","$tmp/DEBIAN/md5sums");