[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#924380: cryptsetup: initramfs warning

[Richard Lucassen]

Package: cryptsetup
Version: 2:2.1.0-1
Severity: minor

Dear Maintainer,

Running "update-initramfs -u" shows this warning on a machine that has cryptsetup installed, but no encrypted devices (I only use crypsetup with USB devices)

It warns:

cryptsetup: WARNING: The initramfs image may not contain cryptsetup binaries 
    nor crypto modules. If that's on purpose, you may want to uninstall the 
    'cryptsetup-initramfs' package in order to disable the cryptsetup initramfs 
    integration and avoid this warning.

But:

# dpkg -r cryptsetup-initramfs
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of cryptsetup-initramfs:
 cryptsetup depends on cryptsetup-initramfs (>= 2:2.0.3-1).

dpkg: error processing package cryptsetup-initramfs (--remove):
 dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
 cryptsetup-initramfs

So the dependency may be removed, but maybe it's easier to add an entry to /etc/default/cryptdisks, e.g.:

CRYPTDISKS_INITRAMFS=Yes

which can be set to "No" if there are no encrypted devices.

Richard.

-- Package-specific info:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages cryptsetup depends on:
pn  cryptsetup-initramfs  <none>
ii  cryptsetup-run        2:2.1.0-1

cryptsetup recommends no packages.

cryptsetup suggests no packages.

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