On Mon, 2020-06-29 at 11:41 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 12:06:39 +0000 Luca Boccassi <bl...@debian.org> wrote:
> > util-linux gained native support for dm-verity volumes in the new
> > upstream version 2.35 in the mount/umount tools.
> > It is enough to build with libcryptsetup-dev present to enable this
> > feature. Please consider adding this build-dependency when uploading
> > 2.35 (it probably should be marked as <!stage1>, since libcryptsetup
> > also build-depends on util-linux).
> 
> Since libmount1 is transitively essential (e.g. by being a dependency of
> mount), this increase the size of a default Debian base installation
> quite a bit:
> 
> 
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   dmsetup libargon2-1 libcryptsetup12 libdevmapper1.02.1 libjson-c4
> libssl1.1
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   libmount1
> 1 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 2283 kB of archives.
> After this operation, 5667 kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> 
> 
> By pulling in libssl and libjson-c, we also now get issues like
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=963948
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=963721
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=963932
> https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=network-manager
> 
> I guess this is enough fallout from this change, that it should be
> reverted (for the time being). While the json-c/jansson issue might be
> fixed eventually, the increase of the base installation is very
> unfortunate. I'm usually not a fan of dlopen, but would this be an
> option here? It seems, dm-verity support is a rather exotic feature.
> 
> Regards,
> Michael

Hi Michael,

Yes the fallout is a bit unfortunate (or maybe, to look on the bright
side of life, it's good that these underlying issues were found a year
before the next release? :-) ).

In terms of image size, what % does that additional 5.6MB represent?

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi

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