Public bug reported:
In Debian, I just made rng-tools a transitional package to fix the bad
situation between rng-tools, rng-tools-debian and rng-tools5:
https://packages.qa.debian.org/r/rng-tools/news/20201111T024143Z.html
It is clear that, past the next release (that is, in bookworm) there
will be only rng-tools-debian (2.x) and rng-tools5 (6.x at least, by
then). Ubuntu should track both rng-tools-debian and rng-tools5 from
Debian. I’ll remove rng-tools between bullseye and bookworm (and Ubuntu
currently does not track rng-tools from Debian anyway).
The rng-tools package itself is more tricky. It is what users coming
from older releases will have installed. In Debian, it always was
version 2.x, so I transitioned it to rng-tools-debian. In Ubuntu,
however, rng-tools 5.x was shipped for multiple releases, so it should
become a transitional package towards there, and eventually (after the
next LTS released with that change) entirely removed. Anything of worth
currently in Ubuntu’s version of rng-tools should be forwarded to
Debian’s rng-tools5 package and merged there, so it can be just Sync’d
into Ubuntu.
** Affects: rng-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: rng-tools5 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: rng-tools5 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Title:
rng-tools: should become a transitional package, like in Debian, but
to rng-tools5
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