Bug#927376: haveged: please ship haveged-udeb to help solve entropy starvation in debian-installer

[Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>]

Source: haveged
Version: 1.9.1-6
Severity: important
Tags: d-i patch

[ debian-boot@ and 923675@ x-d-cc'd ]

Hi haveged maintainers,

As time passes, we encounter more and more entropy starvation issues in
d-i; this includes UUID generation for fontconfig (#898468, worked
around by computing the cache at build time), HTTPS connections, SSH
keypair generations, but also wireless adapter initializations…

My starting point was:
  https://bugs.debian.org/923675

and I've investigated using a new haveged-udeb package. Even if it isn't
fully integrated into d-i yet, first tests look very good.

I've pushed a “buster” branch to the repository with the udeb addition
(and also the Vcs-* update cherry-picked from the master branch because
not having uptodate headers is very annoying), and I've subscribed to
this package to keep an eye on it. Direct links to commits:
  https://salsa.debian.org/debian/haveged/commit/448ed064ed2c54951e9878c9111e1d5bb0538fa8
  https://salsa.debian.org/debian/haveged/commit/c208e76fb05117df918f416cb74ae70e08ad006c
  https://salsa.debian.org/debian/haveged/commit/40e3d2a960c2ef4b65bd081d22e43921aa20c521

Any objections to my uploading an updated haveged package to unstable,
from this buster branch?


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi@debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant