[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#1060270: cryptsetup /usr-move DEP17

[Helmut Grohne]

Hi Guilhem,

On Tue, Feb 27, 2024 at 02:00:05PM +0100, Guilhem Moulin wrote:
> The first message of this bug reads:
> 
> |  * Please upload these changes to experimental first. That allows
> |    running them past QA systems such as piuparts, dumat and others and
> |    also lets us double check the version constraints.
> 
> There is also a coming freeze for Ubuntu 24.04 and I hear they'd like to
> have 2.7.0.  My bad for delaying this, but right now I want 2.7.0 to
> transition to testing first and not risk blocking on cryptsetup-nuke-password
> or potential regressions.  I intend to upload to sid after the
> transition.

Thank you! The reason you give makes sense to me. Indeed, we should have
both cryptsetup and cryptsetup-ask-password in experimental (with
verified version constraints) before proceeeding to unstable. You are
correct that cryptsetup-nuke-password did not make it to experimental
and hence you were not good to proceed to unstable. I call that
attention to detail. :)

Please reupload the patch to experimental (with a version higher than
unstable) assuming that cryptsetup-nuke-password will use version 5 as I
am in contact with Raphael Hertzog.

Your concern with the Ubuntu freeze also is valid, but it actually is
the other way round. Ubuntu already has made the changes in base-files
at al that this bug is blocking in Debian. Ubuntu needs this change even
more urgently than Debian does.

I hope cryptsetup makes it to testing soon (it'll migrate with lvm2)
such that we can move forward here.

Helmut