Bug#915689: Bug#919893: Bug#915689: Bug#919893: package shouldn't exist

2019-01-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Michael Stone dixit: > So that's basically just the --rng-entropy argument? If we switch rng-tools5 > to /usr/lib/stunnel/arngc-slrd | runtunnel | \ rngd -f -r /proc/self/fd/0 -H 0.99 -B 2 \ -s 32 -W "$threshold" -t 300 -T 60 I just had the idea of “castling”¹, t

Bug#915689: Bug#919893: Bug#915689: Bug#919893: package shouldn't exist

2019-01-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 04:12:24PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Yes, exactly: it's definitely better for a certain class of hardware, but I'm honestly just not sure whether any of those are still relevant. (Like, do they work with current kernels, are they in hardware that's otherwise supported,

Bug#915689: Bug#919893: Bug#915689: Bug#919893: package shouldn't exist

2019-01-23 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Michael Stone dixit: > Yes, exactly: it's definitely better for a certain class of hardware, but I'm > honestly just not sure whether any of those are still relevant. (Like, do they > work with current kernels, are they in hardware that's otherwise supported, > etc.?) I'd love to see reports from

Bug#915689: Bug#919893: package shouldn't exist

2019-01-23 Thread Michael Stone
On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 05:19:13AM -0500, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, Jan 21, 2019, at 10:36, Michael Stone wrote: Yes, but most of those features are obsolescent at best. I'm not clear on what functionality is actually being used. (I'm hesitant to remove "old" rng-tools is bett

Bug#915689: Bug#919893: package shouldn't exist

2019-01-23 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019, at 10:36, Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 01:15:13PM +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote: > >On zondag 20 januari 2019 16:59:11 CET Thorsten Glaser wrote: > >> I’m very much against just saying this package > >> “should not exist” Yeah, what should not exist are NMUs

Bug#915689: Bug#919893: package shouldn't exist

2019-01-21 Thread Diederik de Haas
On maandag 21 januari 2019 13:34:19 CET Michael Stone wrote: > On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 01:15:13PM +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote: > >On zondag 20 januari 2019 16:59:11 CET Thorsten Glaser wrote: > >> I’m very much against just saying this package > >> “should not exist” > > > >I'm inclined to agree

Bug#915689: Bug#919893: package shouldn't exist

2019-01-21 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 01:15:13PM +0100, Diederik de Haas wrote: On zondag 20 januari 2019 16:59:11 CET Thorsten Glaser wrote: I’m very much against just saying this package “should not exist” I'm inclined to agree with this as the source (+ features/parameters) for this package is substantia

Bug#915689: Bug#919893: package shouldn't exist

2019-01-21 Thread Diederik de Haas
On zondag 20 januari 2019 16:59:11 CET Thorsten Glaser wrote: > I’m very much against just saying this package > “should not exist” I'm inclined to agree with this as the source (+ features/parameters) for this package is substantially different from rng-tools/rng-tools5. AFAICT the problem star