rng-tools5 vs rng-tools
Hello, Debian seems to contains to version of rng-tool packaged in two different src package (rng-tool, last upload in 2011 and rng-tool5, last upload yesterday). This might be confusing for our users. Shouldn't rng-tools package be removed and/or rng-tools5 renamed to rng-tools? Any reason to keep that old version in debian? If that matters, ubuntu is shipping version 5 of rng-tools in the rng-tool package. Kind regards, Laurent Bigonville
Re: rng-tools5 vs rng-tools
On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:24:35AM +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: Debian seems to contains to version of rng-tool packaged in two different src package (rng-tool, last upload in 2011 and rng-tool5, last upload yesterday). This might be confusing for our users. Shouldn't rng-tools package be removed and/or rng-tools5 renamed to rng-tools? Any reason to keep that old version in debian? rng-tools5 doesn't support everything that's in rng-tools, so it isn't a direct replacement. The command line syntax changed, so existing configurations won't work. It would have been better if upstream had picked a different name for the new program, but without a time machine I can't fix that. :) As a practical matter, I would expect that the hardware supported only by the original package will eventually be obsolete to the point that debian won't run on it, at which point the distinction becomes moot. In theory someone could write a preinst that would check to see whether the current configuration is compatible, then set rng-tools5 to replace rng-tools but abort if it won't work--but as a practical matter, I would expect a large proportion of working rng-tools configurations to break trying to move them to rng-tools5, and for those that do work I wouldn't expect any benefits. Yes, it's confusing, but I've tried to add keywords to the description to suggest that rng-tools5 is the one you want for newer hardware. (RDRAND/RDSEED) Mike Stone
Bug#891504: marked as done (tracker.debian.org: emails sent to 'team+slug@tracker.d.o' are discarded)
Your message dated Thu, 10 May 2018 21:15:46 + with message-id <5af4b682cdfa0_3292afedc95b0cc12...@godard.mail> and subject line Bug #891504 in tracker.debian.org fixed has caused the Debian Bug report #891504, regarding tracker.debian.org: emails sent to 'team+slug@tracker.d.o' are discarded to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact ow...@bugs.debian.org immediately.) -- 891504: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891504 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems --- Begin Message --- Package: tracker.debian.org Currently all non-automated emails (i.e. those that are not anyway already catched by tracker through other means) sent to team+@tracker.debian.org are just discarded instead of being relayed to all team members (imho they should go into the 'contact' keyword). Filing this well known missing feature as a bug so I can point people to it. -- regards, Mattia Rizzolo GPG Key: 66AE 2B4A FCCF 3F52 DA18 4D18 4B04 3FCD B944 4540 .''`. more about me: https://mapreri.org : :' : Launchpad user: https://launchpad.net/~mapreri `. `'` Debian QA page: https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=mattia `- signature.asc Description: PGP signature --- End Message --- --- Begin Message --- Hello, Bug #891504 in tracker.debian.org reported by you has been fixed in the Git repository. You can see the commit message below, and you can check the diff of the fix at: https://salsa.debian.org/qa/distro-tracker/commit/a707768aec9af00095548da39d7a4050d3ae5627 mail: implement forward to team members for team+foo@ emails The process discards all mails which can be associated to a package as those are automatic emails that we already receive through dispatch@. The remaining mails are forwarded to team members with the "contact" keyword. The headers X-Distro-Tracker-Team and X-Distro-Tracker-Keyword are set appropriately. Closes: #891504 (this message was generated automatically) -- Greetings https://bugs.debian.org/891504--- End Message ---
