Python Wheel packages (actually renamed zip files) contains a `metadata.json` file, the fields of which are written in random order. Since they are zip files, they also suffer from [[ReproducibleBuilds/TimestampsInZip|the usual problems of zip files]].

[[https://reproducible.debian.net/issues/python_wheel_package_issue.html|Known affected packages]]

= Work-around =

DebianPts:strip-nondeterminism could normalize the archive file (Bug:775594).

= Solution =

A patch was submitted in Bug:776026 to sort the files in metadata.json and to set the timestamps in the archive to a fixed value.

A patch was submitted in Bug:795942 to update it to use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH so that individual patching of reverse build deps is not required in our toolchain.