[pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#927165: debian-installer: improve support for LUKS

[Cyril Brulebois]

Control: tag -1 patch pending

Hi Guilhem,

Guilhem Moulin <guilhem at debian.org> (2019-07-03):
> On Mon, 01 Jul 2019 at 04:45:47 +0200, Guilhem Moulin wrote:
> > Sure, I even planned to do that when I heard about your post-mini-DebConf
> > “hiccup” ;-)  I remained on the road for another 3 weeks and unfortunately
> > didn't find time since the mini Debconf.  Thanks for the poke, I'll try to
> > tend to it this week.
> 
> It was less difficult than I imagined ;-)  Sorry for delaying it, I
> could have done that immediately after writing the document.
> 
>     https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/installation-guide/merge_requests/9

Don't worry about the delay, I'm very happy to merge this now, and have
an opportunity to backport it in a point release later on. If I got the
process right, having the changes in master should trigger an update of
pot/po files by the l10n robot, and translators will be able to catch up
in a couple of hours.

Again: Many thanks!

> Do you still think it'd be a good idea to add a boot parameter
> ‘luks-version=’ or so (defaulting to ‘2’) so users can easily format
> to LUKS1, or do you agree documenting the “downgrade path” is enough?
> (I guess it's too late for Buster anyway, but maybe a later point
> release?)

As we discussed a couple of weeks ago, adding support for tweaking the
LUKS version was envisioned before buster; but with that documentation
now being available, and with buster being released real soon now, I'm
not convinced adding this option, even in a later point release, is
really a good use of everyone's time.


Cheers,
-- 
Cyril Brulebois (kibi at debian.org)            <https://debamax.com/>
D-I release manager -- Release team member -- Freelance Consultant
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