Bug#358452: [Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#358452: Latest version of script files

[David Härdeman]

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 10:43:21PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote:
>On 12/04/2006 David Härdeman wrote:
>> 3) A cryptsetup with the hook/script included could potentially break 
>> people's initramfs if it is uploaded to unstable before bug 348147 has 
>> been solved. The only situtation where people might get bitten should be 
>> if they have their root partition listed in /etc/crypttab 
>> though....which seems quite unlikely as it hasn't been supported so far.
>
>do you have an assumption when maximilian will add cryptroot suport to
>initramfs? if that doesn't take too long, i could simply wait until he
>uploaded a fixed version. that would at least ensure that a working
>version is in sid when cryptsetup with initramfs support enters sid.

I have no idea, he seems to work in bursts, so suddenly 5 bugs get fixed 
and then silence for a week....I just sent him a nag-email in private, 
so I'll hopefully get some feedback soon.

>i could also conflict with any initramfs version prior to the fixed one,
>but i don't like that idea. as you said, it's not very likely that
>anyone tries cryptroot support of initramfs without reading about it
>first.

I think we should/could upload it without the fixed initramfs, and if it 
indeed does break something, we can take action. It's not called 
unstable for no reason now is it? :)

Re,
David