Bug#768314: proposed 'recommend' as suggested on debian-qa

[Josh Triplett]

On Wed, 04 Mar 2015 17:56:52 +0100 Michael Biebl <biebl at debian.org> wrote:
> Am 04.03.2015 um 17:18 schrieb Gordon Morehouse:
> > I've created Bug#779612 [1] to propose that 'systemd-sysv' and 'cryptsetup' recommend 'plymouth' in Jessie. There is related discussion in debian-qa[2].
> > 
> > 1. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=779612
> > 2. https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2015/02/msg00051.html
> 
> A recommends in systemd-sysv doesn't help on new installations, since
> during debootstrap, recommends are not considered.

I don't think it makes sense for systemd-sysv to recommend plymouth.
Suggesting it might make sense, since systemd has specific support for
it, but a recommendation seems much too strong.  With the new
systemd-fsckd, the output of multiple calls to fsck at boot time will
not step on each other.  And systems that just have an encrypted *root*
filesystem should not have an issue either.  As far as I can tell, this
issue only arises for systems with additional encrypted filesystems.
I'm really hoping that problem could be solved via some other sensible
mechanism, similar to systemd-fsckd, but even if that case needs
plymouth, that's only an argument for cryptsetup to suggest or *perhaps*
recommend plymouth, not for systemd-sysv to do so.

- Josh Triplett