* Simon McVittie <s...@debian.org> [200629 17:39]:
> On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 at 15:33:48 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 at 15:45:41 +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > > We seem to have multiple problems here:
> > > 
> > > 1) Software that is not shipped by Debian and uses a statically
> > > linked or private copy of libssl crashes, because libmount1 pulls 
> > > in libssl1.1, transitively.
> > ...
> > > 2) Some part of libmount1 or libcryptsetup1 introduces a memory
> > > corruption, which is "found" by libjansson users.
> > 
> > Also json-glib users, probably (all of json-c, jansson and json-glib
> > collide at json_object_iter_next()).
> 
> Given the number of moving parts involved in this, and the fact that the
> verity feature is specifically described as experimental in the upstream
> release notes, would you be willing to consider reverting the enablement
> of the cryptsetup feature until there is at least a concrete plan for
> a solution?

This is my plan indeed. I'm waiting for bsdmainutils to pass through
NEW, as it has a versioned dependency on util-linux 2.35.2-7.

> This would reopen #951048, but would at least temporarily
> resolve #963721, #963525 and #963933, and would mitigate #963932. Then we
> can do a coordinated transition with everything happening in the right
> order, when we know what that order is.

#951048 is already reopened.

> Some possible angles to attack this from:
> 
> - not enabling the feature

(Snipped your long list of other options which would need to be done
upstream.)

> Thanks,
>     smcv

Best,
  Chris

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