Feature: sort entries in FILES.json for reproducibility in ansible galaxy build

[yctomwang]

SUMMARY

Aim to implement the feature of sorting the content of FILES.json for the ansible galaxy build to allow for reproducible build mentioned in feature request issue #82792. The FILES.json is sorted by 'name' in ASCII order, with an integration test to ensure the functionaility.
The advantages of this feature:

• this is of course necessary for reproducible build efforts
• it reduces churn between updates, because if a user compares what changed, they don't get a huge diff, but only a diff for newly inserted or removed files.
• it allows skipping a file transfer when using rsync or something similar to avoid transferring unchanged files.
• the file is easier to read for humans ;)

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Pull Request

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

[ansibot]

The test ansible-test sanity --test mypy --python 3.10 [explain] failed with 1 error:

lib/ansible/galaxy/collection/__init__.py:1307:5: union-attr: Item "int" of "list[dict[Literal['name', 'ftype', 'chksum_type', 'chksum_sha256', 'format'], str | int | None]] | int" has no attribute "sort"

The test ansible-test sanity --test mypy --python 3.11 [explain] failed with 1 error:

lib/ansible/galaxy/collection/__init__.py:1307:5: union-attr: Item "int" of "list[dict[Literal['name', 'ftype', 'chksum_type', 'chksum_sha256', 'format'], str | int | None]] | int" has no attribute "sort"

The test ansible-test sanity --test mypy --python 3.12 [explain] failed with 1 error:

lib/ansible/galaxy/collection/__init__.py:1307:5: union-attr: Item "int" of "list[dict[Literal['name', 'ftype', 'chksum_type', 'chksum_sha256', 'format'], str | int | None]] | int" has no attribute "sort"

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[TheVinaySagar]

I tried sort with converting the int to string but again this error occur. I am doing this because name have 3 type string | int | None
when there is int it fails.
can someone help me to debug this error

[Akasurde]

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