[Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Luks

[Jonas Meurer]

On 22/01/2006 gebi at sbox.tugraz.at wrote:
> Same day same task :(.
> I've just uploaded cryptsetup-luks 1.0.1-8 which is now a clean debian  
> package.
> No native package anymore.

so you uploaded 1.0.1-8 to your apt repository? i started with merging
the debian stuff from cryptsetup and cryptsetup-luks, and released the
cryptsetup-luks package as 1.0.1-8 too.
afterwards i merged both into one cryptsetup package, added the new
precheck, postcheck and retry options to the cryptdisks initscript and
fixed several other bugs from the bts.

the result for today is cryptsetup 2:1.0.1-13, available via svn, alioth
project page (http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-cryptsetup) and in
debian/unstable as soon as it passed the incoming queue.

> I've quite a few problems with svn+ssh, ssh-keys are not working but i  
> can login through ssh (on svn.debian.org).
> Is it not possible to checkout svn sources per svn+ssh? (password does  
> not work also).

i checkout and commit stuff from/to svn.debian.org via svn+ssh.

> I've a small patch for cryptsetup which introduces the -q/--batch-mode  
> option (allreay sent upstream and included in the next release).

please merge the patch and your other changes (from 1.0.1-8) into the
2:1.0.1-13 package from alioth.
this one has lots of improvments and bugfixes.

> I'll try to put it in the svn at night.

please don't overwrite the cryptsetup trunk. best upload your packages
as cryptsetup/tags/cryptsetup-luks-1.0.1-8. i restructured svn, and
currently cryptsetup.old has the old non-luks packages, and cryptsetup
has the new luks packages.

> What are the next things to do?

next things would be to improve the cryptoroot and usbcrypto
documentation and to provide better support for initrd/initramfs.
i don't have any knowledge at this topic so far.

also the support for keys on removable media could be improved.

and the (upstream relating) bug in debian bts regarding the missleading
error messages of cryptsetup (http://bugs.debian.org/258376)

...
 jonas