Bug#689336: initramfs-tools 0.108 cannot decrypt dm_crypt filesystems

[Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@debian.org>]

On 05/10/2012 13:52, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> 
> Dropping the severity since most people will have console-setup 
> installed.
> 
> On Fri, 05 Oct 2012, Samuel Hym wrote:
>> I was indeed missing the console-setup package, and with it works 
>> as expected.
> 
> I believe that the update-initramfs keymap hook should display a 
> warning about missing packages when KEYMAP=y and when some of the 
> required executables are missing.
> 
> But that's all that is needed to fix this bug.
> 

And as long as this not fixed, I'm not sure we should allow this package
to migrate to testing. Even if most people might have console-setup
installed, this new revision may break their setup without any
notification. Thus, I don't think downgrading severity to normal is the
right action.

Regards.

-- 
Mehdi