Dropping haveged from the installer

From	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.maint.boot, linux.debian.kernel
Subject	Dropping haveged from the installer
Date	2019-11-07 20:10 +0100
Message-ID	<yZVkl-4lK-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Linux 5.4 introduces an in-kernel jitter-entropy implementation for
systems without a usable hardware RNG, which should remove the need for
haveged.

We could possibly cherry-pick that change on to 5.3, to avoid the need
for further changes to haveged packaging.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky

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Dropping haveged from the installer Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2019-11-07 20:10 +0100
  Re: Dropping haveged from the installer Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2019-11-07 22:40 +0100
    Re: Dropping haveged from the installer Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2019-11-09 23:00 +0100
      Re: Dropping haveged from the installer Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2020-03-14 08:20 +0100
        Re: Dropping haveged from the installer Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2020-03-15 20:20 +0100
          Re: Dropping haveged from the installer Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> - 2020-03-16 04:40 +0100

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