[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#614118: [harri at afaics.de: Bug#614118: error-prone command line options]

[Milan Broz]

On 02/20/2011 06:45 PM, Jonas Meurer wrote:
> To me it's a matter of taste whether the cryptsetup commands are
> case-sensitive or not. One might either argue that it doesn't hurt to
> support lowercase commands like 'luksformat' and 'luksopen' as well, or
> argue that commandline options are _always_ case-sensitive for common
> commandline applications.

and passphrases are also case sensitive:-)

> 
> If you decide that cryptsetup commands stay case sensitive, then I'll
> simply tag the bugreport as wontfix.

Well, I did not invented that, I do not like combined case commands there
too much but I do not want to change it now (most users which have problems
here will use some GUI wrapper or so anyway).

Argument is the same like for "type uppercase yes" - it forces people
to think before it blindly answer yes or issue some command.
You should have some uppercase chars in passphrase so using it in command
should not hurt:-)

Milan