On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 04:51:54PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
Michael Stone dixit:
So the package that shouldn't have existed made it into buster, there's a
ridiculous situation with 3 packages providing essentially the same
functionality with minor differences and no practical way for a user to figure
out which to install, and no movement on fixing this before the *next* release.
Yeah well, it exists now, and IIRC the strongest argument against
*this* package was the name.
No, there were also user confusion, duplication of functionality, and
increased difficulty in future migration.
But given it’s been in a stable release now, maybe it’s time to
retire rng-tools (not rng-tools5), maybe with a transitional package
migrating users over to either rng-tools5 or rng-tools-debian, taking
their configuration along, or just dropping it so it keeps working
for users who have it installed, but new users need to choose one of
the others. Incidentally, rng-tools is not in testing but rng-tools5
is, so the maintainer might wish to check whether there’s anything
left from the rng-tools package to take over.
So you could have added whatever you needed to rng-tools and skipped the
unnecessary package...
At this point, please just clean up the mess.
