[feature idea] Allow duplicate files with the same content

[Yuri]

On 07/25/2017 06:24, Nikolai Lifanov wrote:
> On 7/24/17 6:12 PM, Yuri wrote:
>> Currently several py-backports-* ports install the same __init__.py file
>> into the same location. This is the only conflict between several ports.
>> This was by design, because they didn't think it matters to overwrite
>> the same file installed by another package. [1]
>>
> The content of these is the same functionally but not textually.
> The comments, spacing, single line versus three lines, etc. is
> different. It's the same python code, but it won't hash to the same thing.
>
> - Nikolai
>

Just patch it to be the same if the functionality is the same.


Yuri