On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 05:05:43PM +0200, наб wrote: > Source: popularity-contest > Version: 1.74 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Dear Maintainer, > > d/postinst hard-depends on bash to generate random days/hours/minutes; > however, > od -d -An -N2 /dev/urandom > is equivalent to > bash -c 'echo $RANDOM' > ‒ patch 1 replaces the latter with the former; > od is part of coreutils, and -d is a legacy switch so it's available on > all implementations (and we already use it as a fallback for hostid > generation).
Hello нaб, There should be a provision to work on systems when /dev/urandom is not available, as there is for MY_HOSTID. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
