[Pkg-libvirt-maintainers] Bug#906234: Please change dependency on cryptsetup (probably to -bin)

[Cyril Brulebois]

Control: severity -1 important

Hi,

Laurent Bigonville <bigon at debian.org> (2019-02-20):
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 15:03:52 -0400 Anthony DeRobertis <anthony at derobert.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > cryptsetup is a now a transitional dummy package, which depends on
> > various things that used to be in the package. In particular, it depends
> > on cryptsetup-initramfs which tries to unlock encrypted disks in the
> > initramfs, and produces a warning if there aren't any:
> >
> > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.17.0-1-amd64
> > cryptsetup: WARNING: The initramfs image may not contain cryptsetup
> binaries
> > nor crypto modules. If that's on purpose, you may want to uninstall the
> > 'cryptsetup-initramfs' package in order to disable the cryptsetup
> initramfs
> > integration and avoid this warning.
> >
> > I'm guessing you actually want cryptsetup-bin, which contains e.g.,
> 
> > /sbin/cryptsetup.
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Any chances that this is fixed for buster?

I've just upgraded a virtualization host to buster and just noticed the
hard dependency on cryptsetup. Since the split into different packages,
it makes sense to try and remove cryptsetup-initramfs which isn't useful
on this setup (and generates warnings on each update-initramfs call),
but that can't be done because of this Depends: on cryptsetup which
pulls all new binaries.

Bumping severity to important, and I'm pretty sure a bugfix for buster
would be fine regarding freeze policy.

Thanks for considering.


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