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rng-tools: New upstream location, new releases

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
Cc: 29542 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#29542] rng-tools: New upstream location, new releases
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2017 13:07:42 -0500

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On Mon, Dec 04, 2017 at 01:45:58PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 08:49:09PM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote:
> > Hm. Looks legit, no?
> 
> I think so but one can never be sure :)

I dug around a bit.

Fedora uses Neil Horman's fork from GitHub (what this patch changes our
source to):

https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/rng-tools.git/tree/rng-tools.spec?id=2aa45beb753b7401fedcbfa3ccd0a4b005510f56#n10

CentOS fetches from SourceForge with patches by Neil Horman:

https://centos.pkgs.org/7/centos-x86_64/rng-tools-5-11.el7.x86_64.rpm.html

Debian uses their own fork that hasn't been touched in 6 years:

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/hmh/rng-tools.git/tree/debian/control?id=0235fcf189220aeecc657295b7d3fdd752d3254e

Arch fetches from the old SourceForge project:

https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/rng-tools&id=03d210e8ba320849fd19352174a1b082f4ab2b4f#n10

I don't know how to find package sources on SUSE's web page.

So, I'm confident this source is okay. But after more reading, I don't
think we'll need to use rngd after all.

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