Re: FYI/RFC: early-rng-init-tools

2019-02-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Uoti Urpala dixit: >entropy to be secure. Consider the following scenario: > >Daemon There are no daemons running at that time. This is run in initramfs, just after the root filesystem has been mounted, with no background tasks save udev running, and network has not been set up (unless NFS or dro

Bug#923187: ITP: golang-github-golang-freetype -- The Freetype font rasterizer in the Go programming language.

2019-02-24 Thread Felix Yan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Felix Yan * Package name: golang-github-golang-freetype Version : release+git20170609.e2365df-1 Upstream Author : The Freetype-Go Authors * URL : https://github.com/golang/freetype * License : GPL-2+ or FTL Programming

Bug#923183: ITP: golang-github-ruudk-golang-pdf417 -- Port of pdf417-php by ihabunek in Golang

2019-02-24 Thread Felix Yan
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Felix Yan * Package name: golang-github-ruudk-golang-pdf417 Version : 0.0~git20181029.1af4ab5-1 Upstream Author : Ruud Kamphuis * URL : https://github.com/ruudk/golang-pdf417 * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Des

Re: FYI/RFC: early-rng-init-tools

2019-02-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi Philipp, >FTR this is supposedly fixed on the main architectures featuring an RNG >in the CPU by linux 4.19.20-1, which enabled RANDOM_TRUST_CPU. Which Ben that’s what I referred to by… >>• it does not use/add CPU RNG output where present >> ‣ though Linux can now do that itself, some comman

Re: FYI/RFC: early-rng-init-tools

2019-02-24 Thread Philipp Kern
On 2/24/2019 8:52 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > In buster/sid, I noticed a massive delay booting up my laptop > and some virtual machines, which was reduced by hitting the > Shift and Ctrl keys multiple times randomly during boot; a > message “random: crng init done” would appear, and boot would > c

FYI/RFC: early-rng-init-tools

2019-02-24 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hello fellow developers (and some users), I would like to present a recent (this week) project of mine. Background story: In buster/sid, I noticed a massive delay booting up my laptop and some virtual machines, which was reduced by hitting the Shift and Ctrl keys multiple times randomly during bo

Re: merged-/usr-via-symlinks vs a-different-layout

2019-02-24 Thread Sam Hartman
First, I hear your frustration. I suspect that our current path is going to lead to a fair bit of pain, sufficient even that I expect us to make some changes after the release of buster. Swallowing that will be hard, but I tend to think we're being somewhat narrow in which requirements are being

Bug#923161: ITP: node-dtrace-provider --Native DTrace providers for Node.js apps

2019-02-24 Thread Suman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: suman rajan X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: node-dtrace-provider Version : 0.8.7 Upstream Author : Chris Andrews * URL : https://github.com/chrisa/node-dtrace-provider#readme * License : BSD-2

Re: merged-/usr-via-symlinks vs a-different-layout

2019-02-24 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2019-02-24 at 09:23:14 -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: > > "Guillem" == Guillem Jover writes: > Guillem> On Sun, 2019-02-24 at 08:27:20 +0100, Ansgar wrote: > >> Guillem Jover writes: > You are still conflating the concept with > >> the deployment. The > underlaying properties of

Re: merged-/usr-via-symlinks vs a-different-layout

2019-02-24 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Guillem" == Guillem Jover writes: Guillem> On Sun, 2019-02-24 at 08:27:20 +0100, Ansgar wrote: >> Guillem Jover writes: > You are still conflating the concept with >> the deployment. The > underlaying properties of merging /usr is >> that the contents for > directories that

Re: merged-/usr-via-symlinks vs a-different-layout

2019-02-24 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2019-02-24 at 08:27:20 +0100, Ansgar wrote: > Guillem Jover writes: > > You are still conflating the concept with the deployment. The > > underlaying properties of merging /usr is that the contents for > > directories that are present in both / and /usr get merged into > > /usr. > > No, I'

Re: merged-/usr-via-symlinks damage control (was Re: usrmerge -- plan B?)

2019-02-24 Thread Guillem Jover
On Sun, 2019-02-24 at 03:23:09 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 05:49:24 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote: > > So, as part of damage control I'm going to: > > > > - include the Build-Tainted-By patches into dpkg 1.19.5. > > Done. > > > - include a bug-script in dpkg for reportbu