Hi all,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh dixit:
>On Thu, Oct 1, 2020, at 21:05, Michael Stone wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 11:20:44PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>> >Michael Stone dixit:
>> >
>> >> you can fix it right now!
>> >
>> >So, what do you mean? Take over the rng-tools package?
>So, as long as you come up with a proper transition, you are very
I now have prepared the transition.
For simplicity, I uploaded them keeping the current source to
binary package mapping. This way, src:rng-tools can be RM(RoM)’d
after the bullseye release.
src:rng-tools-debian builds rng-tools-debian 2.2, which contains
some of the requested changes, patches from src:rng-tools BTS,
etc. and can be coinstalled with rng-tools 5migrate*.
src:rng-tools builds rng-tools 5migrate1 which Depends on
rng-tools-debian 2.2~ and transitions the old configuration:
• the /etc/defaults/ file is migrated to rng-tools-debian
unless it was unmodified or empty; there are very few
changes between these packages so this is relatively easy
• the other three conffiles (init script and two logcheck
ignores) are removed if unmodified or empty, put aside
otherwise; this means that init script modifications are
not retained, but the admin is informed
• if transitioning from rng-tools 5-1 (sid), and if the new
--hrng=tpm option is used, migration of the configuration
is denied because that option does not exist in 2.x (also
the TPM is used in a different way); further RNGDOPTIONS
changes are not detected, but those who use sid will know
anyway
• if transitioning from rng-tools 2-unofficial-mt.14-1+b2
(buster) everything is compatible anyway
• NEWS.Debian files in both packages explain this, and in
addition stress *again* that rng-tools5 probably should
be used it possible
Now rng-tools-debian again conflicts (well Breaks and
Replaces) with rng-tools >= 5migratf (i.e. anything past
5migrate*). This allows us to eventually (in 3 releases
or so) rng-tools5 “back” to rng-tools without trouble.
The transitional package is oldlibs and contains the magic
words “transitional” and “dummy” in the description, so it
will most likely be automatically cleaned up.
I tested multiple combinations of upgrades from both buster
and sid in clean chroots until all I could think of passed.
More testing is of course welcome.
I uploaded src:rng-tools with urgency=low to allow for some
time to test. (The src:rng-tools-debian upload isn’t coupled
and can migrate independently.)
Thanks for prodding me again, so this can finally be resolved.
bye,
//mirabilos
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