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

[Jonas Meurer]

On 16/10/2006 Loïc Minier wrote:
> Package: cryptsetup
> Version: 2:1.0.4~rc2-1
> Severity: minor
> 
>         Hi,
> 
>  luksformat /dev/somedevice barked:
>     Error: invalid file system: vfat
> 
>  You might want to add some form of dependency on dosfstools since the
>  default fstype is vfat, even if it's only a Suggests.

Hey Loïc,

I'm not sure about how do deal with this bug.

luksformat is not used by any other software in debian yet, and i don't
know whether it really justifies a Suggests for dosfstools.

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.

...
 jonas