Re: dislocker package broken, fix in 'sid'. How long 'til in backports?

[Michael Bonert <michael.bonert@utoronto.ca>]

Thank you for the comments!  I emailed the developer.

As the dislocker packages don't seem to have dependencies - that  
aren't part of stable (buster),
I decided to create a so-called "FrankenDebian" (  
https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian )


Here is hack:

I downloaded the (amd64) debs:
 https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/dislocker/download
 https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/libdislocker0.7/download

I then in the directory of the '.deb's did this:
# apt install ./dislocker_0.7.1-5_amd64.deb
# apt install ./libdislocker0.7_0.7.1-5_amd64.deb

If done properly - you should see this with 'dpkg --list'
#  dpkg --list |grep dislocker
ii  dislocker                              0.7.1-5                      
                amd64        read/write encrypted BitLocker volumes
ii  libdislocker0.7                        0.7.1-5                      
                amd64        read/write encrypted BitLocker volumes  
(shared library)

dislocker now works for me. :-)


If there is an easier more elegant (less hack-ish) way to do the  
above... I am all ears.


Michael