[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#577923: cryptsetup is too chatty

[Tim Small]

Package: cryptsetup
Version: 2:1.0.6-7
Severity: normal

Cryptsetup breaks normal unix conventions by being too chatty e.g. this
command:

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdc Hitachi_500G_number_2a --key-file -

... outputs:

Command successful.

to standard error.  STDERR is conventionally used for error conditions
only.  Minimally, the 'Command successful.' string should be directed
to stdout, ideally it should not output any message on a normal/successful
condition (or make the output conditional on switches like --quiet or
--verbose etc.).

The current behavior makes scripting (especially in cron jobs) awkward,
as the 'Command successful.' message must be manually checked for and
discarded (e.g. by piping stderr through grep -v).

Thanks,

Tim.

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