Bug#495682: loop-aes-utils: Diverts essential binaries without implementing some trivial and useful option

[Max Vozeler]

Hi Cyril,

On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 06:32:54PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> diverting losetup without implementing losetup -f looks quite a serious
> bug to me.

I won't disagree. -f is rather "recent" and hasn't been 
picked up by the loop-AES fork so far. Let me check how it 
can be enabled, and which other options are missing.

> It'd be nice that you reply to #384059 some day, too.

Yep. That bug hasn't been ignored, and my thoughts and 
considered approaches are not documented there. 

> Both bugs might be merged at some point, but I think this particular
> point could be addressed without solving #384059 globally, hence a
> separate bugreport.
> 
> About the severity, live-helper breaks for USB images when
> loop-aes-utils is installed. I'll try and push a workaround there, and
> eventually lower the severity if that workaround is merged.

OK. Thanks for letting us know about the problems for 
live-helper.

	Max