Bug#919893: rng-tools-debian: package shouldn't exist

2020-11-10 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi all, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh dixit: >On Thu, Oct 1, 2020, at 21:05, Michael Stone wrote: >> On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 11:20:44PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> >Michael Stone dixit: >> > >> >> you can fix it right now! >> > >> >So, what do you mean? Take over the rng-tools package? >So,

Bug#919893: rng-tools-debian: package shouldn't exist

2020-10-01 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Hi, >Yes, I have made it clear in the past that I am happy with any >transition plan at all, so I was not under the impression that I had to >write anything... ah okay, and I missed *that*. Great that we talked about it, thanks Michael for pointing us out. >So, feel free to even become the new

Bug#919893: rng-tools-debian: package shouldn't exist

2020-10-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
Hello... On Thu, Oct 1, 2020, at 21:05, Michael Stone wrote: > On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 11:20:44PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > >Michael Stone dixit: > > > >> you can fix it right now! > > > >So, what do you mean? Take over the rng-tools package? > > > >If so, it has a maintainer, you know. hmh

Bug#919893: rng-tools-debian: package shouldn't exist

2020-10-01 Thread Thorsten Glaser
retitle 919893 rng-tools-debian: please take over rng-tools with a proper transition thanks Michael Stone dixit: > On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 11:20:44PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: >> Michael Stone dixit: >> >>> you can fix it right now! >> >> So, what do you mean? Take over the rng-tools

Bug#919893: rng-tools-debian: package shouldn't exist

2020-10-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 11:20:44PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Michael Stone dixit: you can fix it right now! So, what do you mean? Take over the rng-tools package? If so, it has a maintainer, you know. hmh has been quiet so far. he's been clear that he's happy for someone to take it

Bug#919893: rng-tools-debian: package shouldn't exist

2020-10-01 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Michael Stone dixit: > you can fix it right now! So, what do you mean? Take over the rng-tools package? If so, it has a maintainer, you know. hmh has been quiet so far. > you keep talking about launchpad, but this is a conversation in debian > channels > about a debian package. what ubuntu

Bug#919893: rng-tools-debian: package shouldn't exist

2020-10-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 09:32:47PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Michael Stone dixit: So your position is that rng-tools 2-unofficial-mt.14-1+b2 and rng-tools-debian 2-unofficial-mt.14-3 both in buster are completely different codebases? No, no, no, of course not. I’m talking about sid (and

Bug#919893: rng-tools-debian: package shouldn't exist

2020-10-01 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Michael Stone dixit: > So your position is that rng-tools 2-unofficial-mt.14-1+b2 and > rng-tools-debian > 2-unofficial-mt.14-3 both in buster are completely different codebases? No, no, no, of course not. I’m talking about sid (and therefore testing). Even before the release of buster,

Bug#919893: rng-tools-debian: package shouldn't exist

2020-10-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 05:28:12PM +, Thorsten Glaser wrote: Michael Stone dixit: So you could have added whatever you needed to rng-tools and skipped the unnecessary package... No, rng-tools is a completely different software. So your position is that rng-tools 2-unofficial-mt.14-1+b2

Bug#919893: rng-tools-debian: package shouldn't exist

2020-10-01 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Michael Stone dixit: > No, there were also user confusion, duplication of functionality, and > increased difficulty in future migration. So, the name, and that we have two packages. Oh well, it has happened now. > So you could have added whatever you needed to rng-tools and skipped the >

Bug#919893: rng-tools-debian: package shouldn't exist

2020-10-01 Thread Michael Stone
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 04:51:54PM +, 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

Bug#919893: rng-tools-debian: package shouldn't exist

2020-10-01 Thread Thorsten Glaser
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