This following patch was originally found at the debian mingw-w64 team's
binutils repo located here:
https://salsa.debian.org/mingw-w64-team/binutils-mingw-w64.git

Invoke the following in the aforementioned repo to see the original patch:

  $ git show da63f6b:debian/patches/reproducible-import-libraries.patch

Description: Make DLL import libraries reproducible
Author: Benjamin Moody <benjamin.moody@gmail.com>
Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/915055

--- a/ld/pe-dll.c
+++ b/ld/pe-dll.c
@@ -2844,6 +2844,7 @@
 
   bfd_set_format (outarch, bfd_archive);
   outarch->has_armap = 1;
+  outarch->flags |= BFD_DETERMINISTIC_OUTPUT;
 
   /* Work out a reasonable size of things to put onto one line.  */
   ar_head = make_head (outarch);
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<tr><td><span title='2021-12-22 10:53:19 +0100'>2021-12-22</span></td><td><a href='/guix/commit/tests/keys/ed25519.pub?id=9ebc9ca070a21ba0aeb3f61202a8071bb250ccc8'>tests: Move keys into ./tests/keys/ and add a third ed25519 key.</a><span class='msg-avail'>...<span class='msg-tooltip'>The third key will be used in an upcoming commit.

Rename public keys to .pub.

* guix/tests/gnupg.scm (%ed25519-3-public-key-file): New variable.
(%ed25519-3-secret-key-file): New variable.
(%ed25519-2-public-key-file): Renamed from %ed25519bis-public-key-file.
(%ed25519-2-secret-key-file): Renamed from %ed25519bis-secret-key-file.
* tests/keys/ed25519-3.key: New file.
* tests/keys/ed25519-3.sec: New file.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Othacehe &lt;othacehe@gnu.org&gt;
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