On 18/04/2019 18:41, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi haveged maintainers, > > As time passes, we encounter more and more entropy starvation issues in > d-i; this includes UUID generation for fontconfig (#898468, worked > around by computing the cache at build time), HTTPS connections, SSH > keypair generations, but also wireless adapter initializations… > > My starting point was: > https://bugs.debian.org/923675 > > and I've investigated using a new haveged-udeb package. Even if it isn't > fully integrated into d-i yet, first tests look very good. > > I've pushed a “buster” branch to the repository with the udeb addition > (and also the Vcs-* update cherry-picked from the master branch because > not having uptodate headers is very annoying), and I've subscribed to > this package to keep an eye on it. Direct links to commits: > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/haveged/commit/448ed064ed2c54951e9878c9111e1d5bb0538fa8 > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/haveged/commit/c208e76fb05117df918f416cb74ae70e08ad006c > > https://salsa.debian.org/debian/haveged/commit/40e3d2a960c2ef4b65bd081d22e43921aa20c521 > > Any objections to my uploading an updated haveged package to unstable, > from this buster branch?
Go ahead. I trust you to do the right thing! -- Lunar
