[tor-bugs] #18840 [Core Tor/Tor]: dir auths vote "package" lines out of order

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#18840: dir auths vote "package" lines out of order
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 Reporter:  arma                                 |          Owner:  arma
     Type:  defect                               |         Status:
 Priority:  Medium                               |  merge_ready
Component:  Core Tor/Tor                         |      Milestone:  Tor:
 Severity:  Minor                                |  0.2.9.x-final
 Keywords:  029-nickm-says-yes, review-group-2,  |        Version:
  TorCoreTeam201605                              |     Resolution:
Parent ID:                                       |  Actual Points:
 Reviewer:  nickm                                |         Points:  small
                                                 |        Sponsor:
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Changes (by asn):

 * status:  needs_review => merge_ready


Comment:

 Patch works for me. Packages in votes seem ordered correctly.

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 As an almost off-topic matter, the code managing packages for consensuses
 and votes seems to be of particularly low quality. See
 `compute_consensus_package_lines()` doing ad-hoc parsing.  And see
 `validate_recommended_package_line()` doing more ad-hoc parsing and having
 wrong return value patterns. Fortunately, both of them are weakly tested
 in the unittests. Maybe we should do something about these functions....

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