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

[Luca Boccassi]

On Sat, 20 Mar 2021 20:45:11 +0100 Guilhem Moulin <guilhem at debian.org>
wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 at 19:34:46 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > Do I take it, that you do not consider renaming the Debian specific
crypttab
> > man page an option?
> 
> Correct: as written earlier I believe the current manual is more
likely
> to be useful for our users (given initramfs-tools is our default
> initramfs and someone choosing “encrypted disk” at d-i stage will end
up
> using cryptsetup-initramfs and not involve systemd when unlocking).
> 
> Unfortunately systemd's crypttab(5) parsing logic and list of known
> options started as a strict subset of ours (see for instance
#618862),
> then evolved in its own direction.  (And so did we, to a lesser
extent.)
> However the options that are known not to be working with systemd are
> marked as such in the manual.

Hi,

We'd greatly appreciate it if you could please rename the downstream-
specific one, given it's about initramfs then something like crypttab-
initramfs[-tools] could make it clear it's specific for that use case.

We need to ship the actual crypttab manpage as we are seeing users
misconfigure their systems because of the wrong/missing information in
the downstream crypttab manpage. We need to maintain cross-distro
consistency (that's the whole point of systemd) so renaming the
upstream one is not a good option.

Thank you!

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi
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