[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Comments regarding cryptsetup_1.6.1-1_amd64.changes

[Ansgar Burchardt]

Hi,

Jonas Meurer <jonas at freesources.org> writes:
> Am 27.06.2013 08:47, schrieb Ansgar Burchardt:
>> what's the reason to have an extra package for veritysetup? It's very small
>> (just a single 32kB binary) and doesn't have any dependencies in addition to
>> those already present in cryptsetup-bin.
>
> it's purpose is different from cryptsetup. Veritysetup is for
> crytographic integrity checking of devices. Milan Broz, the cryptsetup
> upstream author suggested to package veritysetup as seperate package.
>
> I understand the argument that a seperate package might be overkill for
> a small binary like veritysetup. If you feel strongly about it, I'll
> happily integrate vertiysetup into cryptsetup-bin.

Unless there are technical reasons for an extra package, I would prefer
to have less tiny binary packages. Splitting will only make the Packages
index even larger and (in my opinion) doesn't bring much.

I've marked the current upload to be rejected.

Ansgar