I don't yet understand how exactly the next two facts combine: 1) Plymouth is not just a splash screen but required for something cryptsetup does 2) cryptsetup works just fine without it on many setups
What conditions are required for the cryptsetup to fail in any way when plymouth package is absent? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to mountall in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/556372 Title: Please remove the plymouth dependency from mountall / cryptsetup Status in cryptsetup: Confirmed Status in mountall package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: mountall I noticed that mountall (and cryptsetup) depends on plymouth now. Whatever plymouth is doing or not doing, my headless system is booting fine without plymouth (dpkg --force-depends -P plymouth), yet all disks (local, NFS) are mounted and cryptsetup is setting up encrypted swap as it used to. IMHO the "Depends: plymouth" is too hard and should be replaced with "Recommends:" or "Suggests:" for the following reasons: - Headless systems won't ever see what plymouth is doing ("graphical boot animation") - Plymouth itself depends on quite a few libraries (libdrm-*), unnecessarily adding code to the installation- Mountall is of "Priority: required" while plymouth is "optional". The "Depends:" makes plymouth essentially "required" as well and cannot be uninstalled w/o --force options. Please reconsider this dependency. # lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu lucid (development branch) Release: 10.04 Codename: lucid # dpkg -l | egrep 'mountall|cryptsetup' | cut -c1-90 ii cryptsetup 2:1.1.0~rc2-1ubuntu13 ii mountall 2.10 # apt-cache show plymouth | egrep 'Vers|Depe' Version: 0.8.1-4ubuntu1 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.8), libdrm-intel1 (>= 2.4.9), libdrm-nouveau1 (>= 2.4.11-1ubuntu1~), libdrm-radeon1 (>= 2.4.17), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.3), libplymouth2 (= 0.8.1-4ubuntu1), upstart-job, udev (>= 149-2), mountall (>= 2.0) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/cryptsetup/+bug/556372/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
