[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#626641: Bug#626641: cryptsetup: bug #587220 re-introduced

[Russ Allbery]

Christoph Anton Mitterer <christoph.anton.mitterer at physik.uni-muenchen.de>
writes:

> Phew I guess there are already some requests against the policy open,..
> both for this config-file-weirdness and for adhering to the (not so
> unreasonable) LSB exit codes.

> I've followed this some time and most arguments against these changes
> seemed (at least to me) to be rooted in avoiding work (e.g. as it would
> be then necessary to improve the init-scripts and make them "fully"
> configurable via their respective /etc/default/foo).

> Anyway,.. there probably won't be any progress soon.

Yes, I think it's very unlikely that any of this will change in Debian;
it's much more likely that Debian will migrate, at least partially, away
from SysV init scripts entirely towards something like upstart or systemd,
which make all of those proposals moot.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>