Bug#1074443: Unable to boot due to missing package from the split

2024-06-28 Thread hammered hammered
You might have a point about recommends. But enabling recommends brings in a whole lot of unnecessary cruft. I don't have stats of what percentage of users disables them or not, so I won't argue on that point more. However, at timepoint A a package provides some critical functionality that the use

Bug#1074443: Unable to boot due to missing package from the split

2024-06-28 Thread Luca Boccassi
On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 22:22:46 +0300 hammered hammered wrote: > You should show a minimum effort to not break stuff even in > unstable/testing. You have intentionally disabled 'recommends', which are enabled by default, and which normally results in sd-cryptsetup being installed. That was your deci

Bug#1074443: Unable to boot due to missing package from the split

2024-06-28 Thread hammered hammered
I think you have greatly underestimated the severity of the problem. Do you understand that users who have enabled whole system encryption are totally locked out of the system? And probably won't have a usable system in the cmdline to begin manually decrypting/mounting stuff. I was somewhat lucky

Bug#1074443: Unable to boot due to missing package from the split

2024-06-28 Thread Luca Boccassi
Control: tags -1 wontfix Control: close -1 On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:27:55 +0300 hammered hammered wrote: > It is totally unacceptable to break a working systems like that. You are running "unstable" or "testing", not "stable", there's a reason they are called as such. Incompatible changes in unsta

Bug#1074443: Unable to boot due to missing package from the split

2024-06-28 Thread hammered hammered
Package: systemd-cryptsetup Version: 256.1-2 I had setup dm-crypt/luks on my debian sid installation and it worked perfectly for more than 5 years now. I had configured two encrypted items. One for the swap and one for the home dir of my user. The last one is dependent on an encrypted file contai