Bug#1011284: popularity-contest: d/postinst: remove bash dependency, fix shellcheck
On Thu, May 19, 2022 at 05:05:43PM +0200, наб wrote:
> Source: popularity-contest
> Version: 1.74
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> d/postinst hard-depends on bash to generate random days/hours/minutes;
> however,
> od -d -An -N2 /dev/urandom
> is equivalent to
> bash -c 'echo $RANDOM'
> ‒ patch 1 replaces the latter with the former;
> od is part of coreutils, and -d is a legacy switch so it's available on
> all implementations (and we already use it as a fallback for hostid
> generation).
Hello нaб,
There should be a provision to work on systems when /dev/urandom is not
available, as there is for MY_HOSTID.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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