Bug#834683: [pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#834683: fixed in mini-buildd 1.0.17

2016-09-15 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 03:51:01PM +0200, Stephan Sürken wrote: > Btw, it's only now that I actually grasp your initial problem was about > entropy all along ;). I just blatantly assumed your initial bug report > was about the doctest failing due to GPG 2.1 (which it did at the time, > entropy or

Bug#834683: [pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#834683: fixed in mini-buildd 1.0.17

2016-09-15 Thread Stephan Sürken
Hi Santiago, On Mo, 2016-09-12 at 21:34 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: (...) > > Lastly, one other option for gnupg at least is to patch upstream to > > use > > --debug-quick-random in the build-time test. > > > > do any of these options sound more appealing than the others? > I didn't know about

Bug#834683: [pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#834683: fixed in mini-buildd 1.0.17

2016-09-13 Thread Stephan Sürken
Rehi, On Mo, 2016-09-12 at 21:34 +0100, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 07:34:09PM +0200, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > > > > An even easier approach might be to do the following within the > > build: > > > >   * ln -sf /dev/urandom /dev/random > > > > why would we need the

Bug#834683: [pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#834683: fixed in mini-buildd 1.0.17

2016-09-13 Thread Stephan Sürken
Hi Daniel, Santiago, thx for the answer; I am not 100% satisfied, though ;). For me, it actually boils down to what notion we have: (1) The builder hosts must provide reasonable entropy. (2) Software testsuites generally must work fine even with low entropy. In the past, I tended to go with

Bug#834683: [pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#834683: fixed in mini-buildd 1.0.17

2016-09-12 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 07:34:09PM +0200, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > An even easier approach might be to do the following within the build: > > * ln -sf /dev/urandom /dev/random > > why would we need the blocking kernel RNG in the buildd anyway? Either that, or maybe a build-depends on a

Bug#834683: [pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#834683: fixed in mini-buildd 1.0.17

2016-09-12 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Hi Santiago and all-- On Sun 2016-09-11 21:30:22 +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > Well, maybe the problem has always been there. > > Maybe official autobuilders have a lot of entropy and we have never > found the problem there, but IMHO we should not take that for granted > in the general case. I