Comment 7 for bug 217138

Well, if it is decided that generally providing users a good out-of-the-box encrypted-drive-support experience to be an acceptable rationale, then it should be of genuine use for every Ubuntu flavor and added to the platform seeds. On that part I probably should mention that when this was dicussed by Kubuntu there were no strong feelings towards not having it on the CD, we just considered the presented rationale insufficient.
In either case I do think that this should be brought into the platform seed and not the specific ones, or if the rationale fails to justify requirements for the platform seed to bring it once more up with the specific seeds.
Since this is essentially a platform feature, one ought to be able to expect it on each major Ubuntu flavor, having these sort of features get adopted in Kubuntu but not Ubuntu or in Ubuntu but not Kubuntu would cause a major headache amongst the target audience of having cryptsetup be part of the default install. Whether a graphical user interface / user interaction is implemented ontop of the platform support is then a decision that has to be made for each flavor individually anyway.