Fwd: Bug#466946: rng-tools might be able to not require "stop" on halt/reboot

[Thorsten Glaser]

Hi sysvinit/insserv experts,

can you make heads and tails of the following?

I took over rng-tools-debian and now wonder if I need to act on this.

In theory rngd probably can (should?) stay running until the end,
but umounting filesystems (deactivating crypto, etc.) could be
interfered with.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh at debian.org>
Message-ID: <20080222003541.GA31927 at khazad-dum.debian.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 21:35:41 -0300
Subject: rng-tools might be able to not require "stop" on halt/reboot

Package: rng-tools
Version: 2-unofficial-mt.10-3
Severity: wishlist

It is quite possible that rng-tools might not need insserv to stop it
explicitly on halt/shutdown.

If that turns out to be true, the relevant information should be removed
from the initscript LSB header.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.16.55-debian13+bluesmoke+lm85 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.ISO-8859-1, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.ISO-8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages rng-tools depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-8      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  makedev                       2.3.1-87   creates device files in /dev
ii  udev                          0.114-2    /dev/ and hotplug management daemo

rng-tools recommends no packages.

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