Hello! I'd like to ask for help with testing the new util-linux package currently available in experimental.
Note: If you're on a non-linux platform, please contact me *before* proceeding for special instructions! The rest of this mail is dedicated to those running Linux. The new package has gone through major changes since the one available in stable/testing/unstable. Hopefully you'll find that installing it will be quite uneventful, but there are some changes that certain people should be aware of before proceeding! First of all, do read the NEWS entries provided in the package! One of the notes there includes mentioning that losetup has completely dropped support for encryption. This also means that the Debian-specific patch to extend this functionality has been dropped[HASHPATCH]. This mean that the mount options "encryption", "nohashpass", "keybits", etc are no longer available for loop mounts. Please make sure that you are not using any of this, as for example having invalid settings in /etc/fstab could potentially lead to an unbootable system (as it seems common that people do not add "nofail" to their fstabs where appropriate). For the record, the recommendation is to use dm-crypt which you hopefully already are doing if you're interested in block layer encryption. If you're a user of storage encryption I urge you to be extra careful and I would also be very happy to get feedback from you on your experience and how we could possibly make your upgrade experience smoother. For anyone that tested this new version it would also be nice if you could send me your feedback! Positive or negative! Please include information what you're testing on (architecture? init system? etc.), if you have any special setup/configuration that could be relevant, if you've dived deeper into some specific features of util-linux, etc... [HASHPATCH]: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/pkg-util-linux.git;a=commitdiff;h=882e4f9d48309b3319c75c629219b6737ed76e22 Regards, Andreas Henriksson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140809193340.ga23...@fatal.se