Ubuntu
easycrypt package

easycrypt needs truecrypt

Bug #254378 reported by Ralph Janke on 2008-08-03

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #109701: [needs-packaging] TrueCrypt. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	easycrypt (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: easycrypt

easycrypt is dependent on truecrypt. However, there is no truecrypt package in debian or ubuntu.

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) wrote on 2008-08-03:

There is already a package request for truecrypt (https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/109701). There seems to be some licensing concerns.

Easycrypt does not make any sense without truecrypt, therefore there should be a decision to package truecrypt either in multiverse or universe and then put it in the dependency of easycrypt.

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Hew (hew) wrote on 2008-08-03:

This seems to be a request for packaging of TrueCrypt, which as you noted, is bug #109701. I am therefore marking this as a duplicate of that report.

Note that EasyCrypt currently notifies the user that it needs TrueCrypt to work, and sends them to the TrueCrypt website to download the required package. As long as TrueCrypt is not found in the Ubuntu repositories, this is the correct behaviour for EasyCrypt.