* debian/apt.cron.daily:

  - when reading from /dev/urandom, use less entropy and fix a rare
    bug when the random number chksum is less than 1000.
    Closes: #695285

diff --git a/debian/apt.cron.daily b/debian/apt.cron.daily
index 5c00f22db11b9e5af618df3ef75e84c88ab190a5..27f08dd4aa8e273069bfc37b08b97088f54cde07 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/apt.cron.daily
+++ b/debian/apt.cron.daily
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ random_sleep()
     fi
     if [ -z "$RANDOM" ] ; then
         # A fix for shells that do not have this bash feature.
-       RANDOM=$(dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 2> /dev/null | cksum | cut -c"1-5")
+       RANDOM=$(dd if=/dev/urandom bs=2 count=1 2> /dev/null | cksum | cut -d' ' -f1 | cut -c"1-5")
     fi
     TIME=$(($RANDOM % $RandomSleep))
     debug_echo "sleeping for $TIME seconds"

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 02fcdaa8bf8d739055b12c79b05ff3aaf10658bf..d08dd8038369faa816a20583ef1ca8e3c3ca43c1 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ apt (0.9.7.8) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
       of e.g. apt-get update. While this adds new translatable strings,
       not having translations for them will not break anything.
       Thanks to Guillem Jover. Closes: #696225
+  * debian/apt.cron.daily:
+    - when reading from /dev/urandom, use less entropy and fix a rare
+      bug when the random number chksum is less than 1000.
+      Closes: #695285
 
  -- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>  Mon, 24 Dec 2012 07:01:20 +0100