[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#779612: Bug#779612: systemd-sysv,cryptsetup: systemd-sysv, cryptsetup should recommend plymouth; without plymouth cryptsetup prompts are unusable

[Jonas Meurer]

Hello,

Am 2015-03-20 16:49, schrieb Gordon Morehouse:
> On 03/19/2015 06:58 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> As pointed out, a recommends does not really help for new installs,
>> since they have no effect when installing the base system.
> 
> A recommends at least provides users a pointer towards fixing a really
> nasty problem (which they shouldn't even have, but, they currently
> will).
> 
>> Also, what Julien said.
>> 
>> Therefor, I wonder if this bug report is useful in this form and if
>> there's a point, keeping it open.
> 
> Perhaps you could open a more appropriate bug to fix the problem for
> new installs?  I'm not familiar enough with Debian to do so.
> 
> Leaving this bug completely untouched is not a good idea.  It makes
> Debian look cartoonishly bad when it bites.

Seems like there's some more discussion needed in order to fix the
reported bug:

a) do we want cryptsetup to recommend plymouth? this way at least
    for manual installation of cryptsetup, plymouth would be pulled
    in, fixing destroyed nasty boot-password-prompts introduced that
    were introduced by the switch to systemd.

b) do we want plymouth to be installed per default on new installs?
    to my knowledge it's not _required_ for systemd to work, but as
    soon as an initscript with user interaction is invoked,
    apparently plymouth is required. This *is* an argument for
    installing plymouth by default.

c) do we want any of the above to be fixed/changed in time for
    jessie?

I'm happy to implement the outcome of this discussion into the
cryptsetup package, and I'm happy to prepare a quick upload with
an added recommends on plymouth targeted at jessie. But at the
moment I'm unsure which is the best solution, waiting for more
opinions and especially for comments by the RMs ;)

Cheers,
  jonas