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 with this as the source (+ features/parameters) for
> >this package is substantially different from rng-tools/rng-tools5.
> 
> 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
> it exactly because I'm not clear on that, but I tend to think that it's
> functionally obsolete.)

I'm not knowledgeable enough to weigh in on that and/or what is best towards 
the future, so I'll leave that up to you.

> >coordination/progress. I'm thinking of updating
> >https://github.com/debian-pi/ raspbian-ua-netinst/ to buster level and we
> >use(d) the old rng-tools to get much better/more entropy on the Raspberry
> >Pi.
> 
> In what way?

Entropy generation for the creation of SSH keys as the netinstaller is mostly 
used in headless situations.
https://github.com/debian-pi/raspbian-ua-netinst/issues/42

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