Dear Release Team,
I would like to issue an updated version of 'cryptmount' (from 1.2-1 to
1.2-3) within the current Debian 'Etch' release. This package provides
facilities for managing encrypted filesystems via the kernel device-mapper.
The proposed update addresses the following problems in the 1.2-1
release that have caused difficulties for a number of users:
* the example master configuration file is not installed correctly,
leaving no example of /etc/cryptmount/cmtab within
/usr/share/doc/cryptmount/examples;
* inappropriate startup run-levels have been selected for triggering
/etc/init.d/cryptmount, meaning that it will not be feasible to configure
encrypted filesystems at system boot-up, as intended;
* the /etc/init.d/cryptmount startup script does not ensure that
device-mapper kernel modules are loaded (which will conflict with anticipated
changes in the libdevmapper package);
* the documentation does not explain rather cryptic error messages
issued by libdevmapper when an unsupported key-size is chosen for the
user-selected encryption algorithm;
* certain errors associated with failure to create/modify key-files are
not trapped;
All of these changes represent very minor corrections to the
source-code, but will remove some significant weaknesses in the current release.
The source-code for the proposed update is available via
http://www.rwpenney.org.uk/software/index.html
If you could authorize my sponsor (Laszlo Boszormenyi) to upload
cryptmount_1.2-3 to the stable distribution on my behalf, that would be much
appreciated.
Thanks,
RW Penney
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