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

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

Am 23. September 2022 16:16:08 MESZ schrieb Luca Boccassi <bluca at debian.org>:
>We could patch systemd's to have a link to Debian's near the top, with
>a one-liner explanation? That should be easy to maintain and retain
>visibility?

That's the same what we already have the other way round...

Plus,  you'd need to patch it upstream and not just in Debian, otherwise people would find the upstream version all over Google, and not realise,  that this is likely far less relevant for them.


Also, it wouldn't change anything else of what it wrote before, about cryptsetup's crypttab manpage being typically much more relevant for debian users, much closer, to upstream, etc..


Why exactly should cryptsetup's manpage step back,  if that's still well maintained, more powerful and what's most probably more relevant for Debian dm-crypt users?
Just because some other distros do it different doesn't seem a good reason (while all Debian-based don't) , because Debian should probably do what's most relevant for its users.

Wouldn't be an option to rename the manpage upstream at systemd?
Seems to me that this would fit much better in usual systemd convention of naming most manpages systemd-* or systemd.*?
Since systemd is not cryptsetup, that would seem a much more natural choice.

To my best knowledge, Debian's cryptsetup was first in having crypttab (the oldest reference I've found is 16 years old,  while systemd was only startet some 10 years or so ago). So it rather belongs there and systemd should have taken care not to create incompatibilities.
Again, if Debian's cryptsetup/tab would be unmaintained... or far less important... sure, but since neither is the case, it would seem impolite to me if systemd insisted on its position (not that I'd imply that it would actually do so), just because they're overall bigger. 


At least IMHO at best cryptsetup upstream could really "claim" the manpage under having a higher precedence.
But I guess Milan would then take care not to become incompatible with the pre-existing crypttab of Debian.


Anyway, these were just my thoughts an in the end Jonas /Guilhem will decide.... and I'm actually off for some diving expedition (i.e. its not meant as rudeness if I don't answer anymore for a few weeks).

Best wishes, 
Chris.