Bug#393473: [Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#393473: Misses dependency on dosfstools

[Loïc Minier]

        Hi,

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> luksformat is not used by any other software in debian yet, and i don't
> know whether it really justifies a Suggests for dosfstools.

 At least luksformat is used by users. :)

> On the other hand i don't know why the default fstype in luksformat is
> vfat. Martin, you're the author of luksformat, what was your intension
> when you set the default fstype to vfat?
> 
> I would suggest to either change the default fstype to ext2 or to add
> some checks to luksformat which tell the user that the debian package
> 'dosfstools' is missing.

 I think the default makes sense, I found this rationale in the man
 page:
       The default file system is vfat since that is most commonly used on
       removable devices. However, you can specify any available file system
       with the -t option.

   Cheers,
-- 
Loïc Minier <lool at dooz.org>