Control: severity -1 important

Matt Taggart <m...@lackof.org> (2023-04-25):
> As reported in #999811 the haveged package is obsolete starting in
> linux 5.6 and newer, as the kernel adopted a similar algorithm and
> also stopped blocking /dev/random reads.
> 
> I am upgrading severity to serious because I believe this is release
> critical for bookworm.

No, thanks.

> There may still be reasons to keep haveged in Debian, I do not know.
> (do all archs have these >5.6 features? is it still needed in
> addition?)

https://bugs.debian.org/1034361#12

1+ month into the hard freeze isn't when you suddenly want to remove a
dependency of the installer.


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

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