Bug#611660: tomb vs cryptmount
On Tue, Aug 07, 2012 at 12:00:59PM +0000, Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) wrote:
> Hi Bert,
>
> On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 13:03 +0200, bertagaz@ptitcanardnoir.org wrote:
> > I'd say that one of the most important difference is the use of the
> > steghide tool to hide access keys in an image. Also Tomb has some Gtk
> > integration.
> The steghide sounds good!
>
> > However there are plenty of softwares in the Debian archive that provide
> > almost the same features, so I'm not sure to get the point of this
> > question.
> Some DDs would argue, as this is not the optimal state. There are a
> _lot of_ packages in Debian, but not all of them maintained correctly.
> Smaller number but more competent packages would help in general. Better
> packaging, easier to write HOWTOs for a specific task and so on.
You make a point. If I asked for the status of this packaging, it's
because I was willing to stand up for maintaining it if no one was
wiling to do so.
> But to stay on topic, the question was more user oriented this time. I
> use and like cryptmount and I like CLI applications better. On the other
> hand, if tomb is better in many ways, I may migrate to it.
> Will do my tests then. About to create a package of tomb first.
Great, don't hesitate to tell me what you think about it, I'm curious too.
Upstream already did some packaging work in its debian0 branch. Also if
you need any help, I'd be glad to. Including co-maintaining it if you're
willing to include it in Debian.
bert.
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