@juliank Thanks for the tip about machine id. May I also ask, for
repeatability, is there an official/supported way to run (unit) tests on
the upgrade logic alone, say, by feeding `/var/lib/dpkg/status`, index
files and maybe some environment variables/APT::* preferences to `apt-
get` and then running a simulation?

As you have seen in
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/2017399, the least
amount of state for a reproducible report involved a livecd iso. And if
I had been much further down the road it would have been impossible to
trace the issue to the "original" state that everybody else also has
access to.

Regarding md5, the first or last 64 bits (or 32bits for i386) already
give a good random number for this purpose. There is no need to deal
with 128bit integers.

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