Bug#961729: education-networked-common: Please remove Recommends: haveged

[Chris Hofstaedtler <zeha@debian.org>]

* Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org> [200528 15:15]:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 01:06:49PM +0000, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > your package currently Recommends: haveged. On modern kernels, so
> > whatever will ship in bulleye, the kernel will provide enough entropy,
> > so there should be no need for haveged, except in exceptional
> > situations.
> > 
> > Please remove the Recommends: haveged.
> 
> out of curiosity: why do you care? Just trying to get rid of some 'bloat'
> everywhere or? (that would be a fine reason alone. i'm just a bit surprised :)

The topic came up on IRC, and for me it is about removing bloat from
("default") installs.

I have also heard about concerns of the quality of haveged
randomness, but personally did not investigate.

Chris