On Thu, Dec 06, 2012 at 11:45:40AM -0500, sacrificial-spam-addr...@horizon.com wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.9.7.6 > Severity: minor Thanks for your bugreport.
[..] > This backup for a missing $RANDOM reads 512 bytes out of /dev/urandom, only > to reduce it (incorrectly) to a 5-digit number (16.6 bits max, although > the distribution is skewed), then to 10.8 bits (modulo 1800). > > It's incorrect because cksum produces a 32-bit checksum, formatted as > "%u", so some small fraction of the time (1 in 4.3 million times), it'll > be less than 1000 and the cut will produce a result of the form "123 4", > causing the evaluation > of TIME to fail. Thanks, I fixed this now in my bzr tree and it will be part of the next upload. Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
