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? In hope this helps, -- .''`. Étienne Mollier <[email protected]> : :' : pgp: 8f91 b227 c7d6 f2b1 948c 8236 793c f67e 8f0d 11da `. `' sent from my alarm clock `-
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