Max Vozeler wrote: > I wrote a cdebconf plugin (only newt for now) to help reading > random data from /dev/random while showing a progressbar and > allowing the user to type randomly at the keyboard to feed the > kernel entropy pool (and so speed up reading from /dev/random). > It's used in partman-crypto for generating encryption keys. > > What do people think: Would it make sense to commit this plugin > to d-i svn? It might serve as example (although not shining :-) > of how cdebconf newt plugins can be built out-of-tree. If so, > where should it go? I think packages/cdebconf-plugins could be > a good place if more plugins are expected in the future. > > The code currently lives in > http://svn.hinterhof.net/public/cdebconf-entropy Yes, it should totally go into d-i svn, IMHO. I'd say only use packages/cdebconf-plugins if that would be a single source package that built multiple plugins, otherwise packages/cdebconf-entropy would be fine. -- see shy jo
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