Package: cryptsetup
Version: 2:1.0.4-8
Severity: normal
The manpage of crypttab(5) says to the checkscripts:
"swap
Checks for partition type swap. Only useful as <precheck>."
But the script in /lib/cryptsetup/checks/swap checks for a valid swap
signature. Because checking for partition type is a bad idea (#342079)
an there is no solution for good precheck available (#350922)
perhaps /lib/cryptsetup/checks/swap should be removed completely.
There is no sense to use it as precheck. Encrypting the raw device,
the signature has gone away.
There is also no sense to use it as check. Swapon will do it itself.
At least the manual should be corrected:
"swap
Check for swap signature. This is not very useful. In creating
an encrypted swap device you destroy any swap signature on raw
device. Hence you cannot check for it."
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Versions of packages cryptsetup depends on:
ii dmsetup 2:1.02.08-1 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdevma 2:1.02.08-1 The Linux Kernel Device Mapper use
ii libgcryp 1.2.3-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libgpg-e 1.4-1 library for common error values an
ii libpopt0 1.10-3 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libuuid1 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-1 universally unique id library
cryptsetup recommends no packages.
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