Hi Étienne, On Fri, Nov 06, 2026 at 01:05:17PM +0100, Étienne Mollier wrote: > Hi Salvatore, > > Salvatore Bonaccorso, on 2026-08-01: > > FWIW, the module is deprecated, should we aim to try to remove it for > > the forky release? It won't be immediately possible due to reverse > > depends using it but maybe we should still fill an RC level bug 'do > > not release with forky' and the reverse dependencies having a switch > > to more suitable modules. > > This looks viable, I identified via `apt rdepends` and > `build-rdeps` that the only consumers of libdata-entropy-perl in > unstable look to be currently libdancer2-plugin-passphrase-perl > and zoneminder. I don't know for sure how to check for uses in > autopkgtest d/t/control file apart from using brute force. > > I opened #1153221 against zoneminder in order to document that > upcoming upstream versions are going to drop the need for > Data::Entropy, though that doesn't appear to be part of an > existing release yet. > > I opened #1153225 against libdancer2-plugin-passphrase-perl to > document some ideas that might help migrate away from > Data::Entropy, which were published by another reporter to > upstream issue tracker initially. > > Both reports are currently rated "important", to align with the > present report. I guess they could be made blockers of an > eventual removal request?
Thank you sounds all good. Regards, Salvatore
