Bug#237716: Whats the status?
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 11:42:20PM -0300, Micah Anderson wrote:
> Last I heard Wesley was going to wait a "week or so" before deciding
> that the ITP has expired and you'd package this yourself. That was
> Wed, 5 May 2004 21:25:13 +0200 ... I'm quite curious to know whats
> going on with this?
There is a package waiting in NEW on the debian servers.
> While I do not want to discourage your grand plans Wesley, it seems
> like it would be rather trivial to simply package the cryptsetup
> binary instead of going through changing a lot of things?
Simply packaging cryptsetup would have been pretty much useless.
It is a tool for setting up block devices... If it doesn't work with your
scripts for mounting filesystems, what good does it do you?
> I personally would be thrilled to have them, but just getting the binary
> out there would be nice too. (However, I should note that a perfectly
> compatable cryptsetup is available in the hashalot package, but this is
> based on the bash script, which I believe is being deprecated in favor of
> the C program).
Yes.
The patch for mkinitrd is finished and I presume will be in the next upload
of initrd-tools. However, Herbet Xu just resigned from Debian and it was
with him that I was coordinating the patch. We'll see how it works out.
At any rate, the package (with needed scripts) is in NEW waiting for the
ftpmasters. The pathces are all ready, and it's pretty much taken care of
now.
--
Wesley W. Terpstra
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