[Bug 556372] Re: Please remove the plymouth dependency from mountall / cryptsetup

[Oliver Joos]

Perhaps we could create an empty deb package
"plymouth_99.9.9-9ubuntu99.deb" with unchanged dependencies but without
files in it that would be installed. ATM I use the PPA from comment 22.
But this PPA has to follow every update of mountall and cryptsetup. I'd
prefer to keep the original mountall and cryptsetup but "update"
plymouth to an empty version.

We really need an easy-to-maintain fix for this bug before some Smart-
TV-like commercials show up as new default plymouth splash screens!  ;-)

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Title:
  Please remove the plymouth dependency from mountall / cryptsetup

Status in “mountall” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: mountall

  I noticed that mountall (and cryptsetup) depends on plymouth now.
  Whatever plymouth is doing or not doing, my headless system is booting
  fine without plymouth (dpkg --force-depends -P plymouth), yet all
  disks (local, NFS) are mounted and cryptsetup is setting up encrypted
  swap as it used to.

  IMHO the "Depends: plymouth" is too hard and should be replaced with
  "Recommends:" or "Suggests:" for the following reasons:

  - Headless systems won't ever see what plymouth is doing ("graphical boot animation")
  - Plymouth itself depends on quite a few libraries (libdrm-*), unnecessarily adding code to the installation- Mountall is of "Priority: required" while plymouth is "optional". The "Depends:" makes plymouth essentially "required" as well and cannot be uninstalled w/o --force options.

  Please reconsider this dependency.

  # lsb_release -a
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID: Ubuntu
  Description:    Ubuntu lucid (development branch)
  Release:        10.04
  Codename:       lucid

  # dpkg -l | egrep 'mountall|cryptsetup' | cut -c1-90
  ii  cryptsetup                                              2:1.1.0~rc2-1ubuntu13         
  ii  mountall                                                2.10 

  # apt-cache show plymouth | egrep 'Vers|Depe'
  Version: 0.8.1-4ubuntu1
  Depends: libc6 (>= 2.8), libdrm-intel1 (>= 2.4.9), libdrm-nouveau1 (>= 2.4.11-1ubuntu1~), libdrm-radeon1 (>= 2.4.17), libdrm2 (>= 2.4.3), libplymouth2 (= 0.8.1-4ubuntu1), upstart-job, udev (>= 149-2), mountall (>= 2.0)

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