[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Is cryptsetup 1.0.6 unofficial/Debian-only ?

[Clemens Fruhwirth]

At Wed, 8 Oct 2008 12:10:55 +0200,
Pavel Mendl wrote:
> 
> Dear community friends,
> 
> first of all: sorry to disturb. 
> Be it another kind of package, I would silently ignore the versioning 
> inconsistency, but in cryptology it is better to be paranoid than sorry.
> 
> I am about to instal cryptsetup on my Debian/lenny production desktop 
> installation. Checking the version I have found 2:1.0.6-6 for the Debian 
> packaging system (http://packages.debian.org/lenny/cryptsetup), while 1.0.5 
> last release reported on the project reference homepage 
> (http://luks.endorphin.org/dm-crypt).
> 
> I would still take it for not-in-sync case between luks and Debian versioning, 
> should I not read on Debian page:
> Download Source Package cryptsetup: 
> [cryptsetup_1.0.6-6.dsc]
> [cryptsetup_1.0.6.orig.tar.gz]
> [cryptsetup_1.0.6-6.diff.gz]
> what resembles original distribution in (unreported) version 1.0.6 again.
> 
> Any feedback welcome (even brief "It's ok, just no time to maintain web 
> news" - I know the feeling myself ;-) ).

Not entirely but almost "unmaintained website" :)
http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/ is now LUKS project home.
http://luks.endorphin.org isn't yet updated to reflect that change. Will do that later today.

-- 
Fruhwirth Clemens - http://clemens.endorphin.org