pollinate 4.14-0ubuntu1 source package in Ubuntu

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pollinate (4.14-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * pollinate, pollinate.1: LP: #1554152
    - change the failure mode of pollinate, so as to more cleanly
      tolerate network failures
    - add a --strict option to re-enable the previous behavior,
      ie, strictly exit non-zero if pollinate fails for any reason
    - we've always promised that pollinate would operate on a best-effort
      basis, improving the prng seeding when possible, but failing
      gracefully when not possible; as such, we've made good on the first
      half of that promise, however, the latter half has proven
      troublesome;  this is due to the fact that if pollinate exits
      non-zero, then its callers (cloud-init, maas, etc.) may well
      interpret the behavior strictly as a failure to boot the system,
      when in fact that's not the case;  instead, we'll clearly print
      a warning to syslog, and we'll retry the seeding on next pollinate
      service start (e.g. a reboot);  moreover, we'll carry a --strict
      flag in the case that users want to opt into the previous behavior

 -- Dustin Kirkland <email address hidden>  Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:16:12 -0700

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Uploaded by:
Dustin Kirkland 
Uploaded to:
Xenial
Original maintainer:
Dustin Kirkland 
Architectures:
all
Section:
admin
Urgency:
Medium Urgency

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Xenial: [FULLYBUILT] amd64

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pollinate_4.14-0ubuntu1.debian.tar.xz 11.3 KiB e6cf001c94a2817bc5cb504e29c4f4606340b07a19600cb4411aa8fddf77f77c
pollinate_4.14-0ubuntu1.dsc 1.7 KiB 4d666f01687d959fbf683f9f38d9d355a4511219cb2e9b863f99ee9e66f928d2

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Binary packages built by this source

pollinate: seed the pseudo random number generator

 This client will connect to one or more Pollen (entropy-as-a-service)
 servers over an (optionally) encrypted connection and retrieve a random
 seed over HTTP or HTTPS.
 This is particularly useful at the first boot of cloud images and in
 virtual machines, to seed a system's random number generator at
 genesis, and is intended to supplement the /etc/init.d/urandom init script.
 It can be used on physical machines, as well, to supplement the seeding
 of the psuedo random number generator.