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VeraCrypt for Debian
--------------------

This file is part of an unofficial Debian packaging for VeraCrypt. It is
unrelated to either Debian or VeraCrypt. It was created because the packaging
author disliked installing deb files for which he couldn't get the Debian
sources for.

This packaging differs from the VeraCrypt Ubuntu/Debian packaging in at least
these ways:

- This package provides an init script that calls 'veracrypt -d' on shutdown. At
  the point it is called, all filesystems (except root) should already have been
  unmounted, but the VeraCrypt service processes and device mappings may still
  be active. Calling 'veracrypt -d' is probably better than the system sending
  the VeraCrypt service kill signals. It can be disabled by editing
  /etc/default/veracrypt.

- A Perl script transforms the output of 'veracrypt --help' to produce a 
  troff man page. The upstream sources don't contain a man page.

- This package adds itself to both the Debian menu system and the Gnome menu
  system. The VeraCrypt package only adds itself to the latter.

- The user manual is installed in /usr/share/doc/veracrypt as opposed to
  /usr/share/veracrypt/doc.