[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#545032: Bug#545032: devicekit-disks - Handles add actions of dm devices

Michael Biebl biebl at debian.org
Fri Sep 4 15:16:29 UTC 2009


Bastian Blank wrote:
> Package: devicekit-disks
> Severity: critical
> 
> devicekit-disks adds its own udev rules that likes to handle add actions
> of device-mapper devices. This will break arbitrary usage, for example
> cryptsetup. So this is not allowed for anything except the device mapper
> core with special precaution. Also it overwrites data already setup by
> device mapper.

Hi Bastian,

could you elaborate how exactly it will break other applications, like cryptsetup.

Michael
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