[Pkg-haproxy-maintainers] Bug#779840: Include patch against rand()

[Luca Bruno]

Package: haproxy
Version: 1.5.8

I'd like to request this upstream commit [0] to be included in debian
haproxy and hopefully be backported to wheezy. The rand() function in
the config is otherwise completely broken.

The rand(<range>) function [1] is supposed to give random numbers
between 0 and <range>. Without this patch, it gives random numbers
between 0 and <range>/2.
For example, rand(1000) will never give numbers above 500, hence rand(2)
will always give 0.

I've locally built haproxy from the debian package with this patch as
last in the quilt series, it applies cleanly and works as expected.

Best regards,

[0]
https://github.com/haproxy/haproxy/commit/1228dc0e7ae4a6b16c0c7f74a28f8e84601b526c
[1] http://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/configuration-1.5.html#7.3.2-rand
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