Am 09.03.2015 um 08:48 schrieb Julien Cristau: > On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 12:45:28 +0100, Jonas Meurer wrote: > >> Hi Gordon, >> >> thanks for the bugreport. I escalate this bugreport to the >> debian-release team, asking for advice: would you accept another >> cryptsetup upload targeted to jessie in order to add 'plymouth' to the >> list of recommended packages? >> >> Am 03.03.2015 um 03:43 schrieb Gordon Morehouse: >>> Booting in jessie is currently nearly impossible with multiple cryptsetup >>> volumes which are mounted at boot time. systemd spews messages over the >>> prompt and there's a 90-second timeout while typing blind. Please see >>> the bug report[1] and discussion on debian-qa[2]. >>> >>> The bug appears to be "fixed" by installing plymouth, so it's proposed that >>> systemd-sysv and cryptsetup should at least recommend plymouth. >> >> I agree that plymouth should be pulled in per default on jessie >> installations with systemd and cryptsetup. While I don't know nothing >> about systemd without plymouth, when cryptsetup comes into play, >> plymouth is critical for the interactive password prompt at boot. >> >> Therefore I agree with the bug submitter, that cryptsetup in jessie >> should recommend plymouth. >> > Does a recommend help at all, when plymouth doesn't do anything without > a cmdline change?
As pointed out, a recommends does not really help for new installs, since they have no effect when installing the base system. Also, what Julien said. Therefor, I wonder if this bug report is useful in this form and if there's a point, keeping it open. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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