Re: Document removal of ecryptfs-utils from Buster
Andrea Borgia <andrea@borgia.bo.it> wrote:
> Il 30/06/19 11:52, Curt ha scritto:
>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=928956
>>
>> Due to #765854 ecryptfs-utils has been removed from Buster.
>> The kernel module (ecryptfs.ko) is still built but depending on the
>> upgrade path users will be unable to mount their encrypted home
>> directories (pam module, ecryptfs-mount-private missing).
>> So they should probably be strongly advised to not upgrade.
> Should I count myself lucky that I have two systems running "testing"
> with also "stable" sources? Perhaps it's time to mark the package as
> "hold" :)
> I'd be interested to know if there is an alternative: not so much for
> my desktop but my laptop really needs it. Thanks for the heads up,
> though.
You could compile ecryptfs-utils on Buster manually to get the
dependencies right.
Or keep stretch in sources.list but this will not work forever, as soon
as Stretch gets archived it will break.
Other than that: Reinstalling the system with full disk encryption or
just copying the files from the ecryptfs and then removing it are the
only real other options.
But I foresee a big lashback once people not noticing this upgrade to
Buster to then just discover that their system is completely broken.
Grüße,
Sven.
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