Notes for pymodbus - reproducible builds result

Version annotated: 2.1.0+dfsg-2
Identified issues:
Identifier: randomness_in_objects_inv
Description Some Python documentation tool writes objects.inv files in a random order.
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There is also a translation issue that is being tracked in sphinxdoc_translations
Identifier: randomness_in_documentation_generated_by_sphinx
URL https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds/SphinxIssues
Description Sphinx might output references to memory addresses and generate a json index file
with entries in random order or with non-deterministic values (eg. searchindex.js).
See https://bugs.debian.org/822197 for memory address issue
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searchindex.js needs sort_keys=True (jsonimpl.py) but the key values vary too.
Comments: Build paths and modification date embedded in python .pyc files
 

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