[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#768314: Bug#768314: cryptsetup: Passphrase prompt rolls by without stopping

[Tomas Pospisek]

Hello Jonas & Kjetil,

(context: I'm reading through release-notes bug reports).

I'm not sure I understand what you are expecting as a result by 
cloning/reassigning this to the release notes -

Let me try to understand the problem:

* if there's an encrypted partition, then systemd, who aparently would be
   responsible to do so will not prompt for the password, if plymouth is
   not installed.

Is my understanding of the problem correct?

So I think the right thing to do would be, that during the upgrade 
the systemd postinstallation should check whether there are some 
mounted partitions that are crypted and then recommend to install 
plymouth. Do you concur?

Otherwise, should the release-notes recommend to install plymouth to the 
user if s/he has crypted partitions that should get mounted during boot?

Ideally IMHO the release notes should also explain the problem in 
sufficient technical detail to allow the user to take his own steps to 
further understand the problem and to choose an alternative solution if he 
deems so.

Optimally you could suggest a wording?

Greets & thanks,
*t