[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#981405: Bug#981405: man crypttab file conflict with systemd

[Michael Biebl]

Am 30.01.21 um 19:23 schrieb Guilhem Moulin:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 at 18:05:23 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> This is unfortunate though. Since systemd is our default init system,
>> the man page for /etc/crypttab should reflect what's supported.
> 
> In my view it's more nuanced than this: our default initramfs is
> initramfs-tools, and AFAIK the only “guided” way to get disk encryption
> from d-i/partman-crypto yields something involving cryptsetup-initramfs
> only, not systemd-cryptsetup at .service.  I don't have metrics of course,
> but I therefore believe that crypttab(5) from src:cryptsetup is more
> likely to be relevant to users than the one from systemd.
> 
>> I notice, that the crypttab man page in src:cryptsetup is a Debian
>> specific addition (debian/doc/crypttab.xml).
> 
> We're upstream for the stuff that hook into initramfs-tools for
> unlocking at initramfs stage (and also the sysvinit scripts).
> 
> In mid-2018 we added a section “on different crypttab formats”
> explaining the scope of our manual page and even included a pointer to
> https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/crypttab.html .  If
> systemd were to ship its crypttab manual under a different name or
> location we could add the offline URL there too.

Do I take it, that you do not consider renaming the Debian specific 
crypttab man page an option?

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