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+ <B>Sebastian Ramacher</B>
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+ <I>Fri Jan 13 12:59:49 CST 2012</I>
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+<PRE>On 01/13/2012 05:07 PM, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote:
+&gt;<i> On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 05:08:32AM +0100, Sebastian Ramacher wrote:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I'm facing the following issue: in the Debian package of pycrypto we build
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> pycrypto for Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.1 and the debug variants. For all these
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> versions and variants the test suite is run during the build. This works fine
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> except on the GNU/Hurd build system [1]. There the test suite succeeds for Py
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> 2.6, 2.7 but fails for Py 3.2 because the system runs out of entropy.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I see two options to fix the issue on the Debian side:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> * Disable the test suite on GNU/Hurd.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> * Replace every occurrence of /dev/urandom with /dev/random and run the
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> test suite with /dev/random.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I don't like either of these two options. I'd rather prefer an option to
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> specify the random number generator that should be used for the test
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> suite. But before implementing such an option I'd like to know if this
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> has any chance to be accepted into pycrypto.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Not likely. This looks like a HURD bug that should be fixed in HURD.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> [snip]
+</I>
+Thank you for the explanation. This was a misunderstanding on my side. I'll talk
+with the Hurd Developers then.
+
+Kind regards
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