Comment 101 for bug 556372

We are doing some research on how PARTICIPATION actually works in the Ubuntu ecosystem and we would like to know if there is any community process that would allow voting on this issue?

This is an especially interesting issue because from a technical view it is very clear - of course it is total nonsense to have such basic things like cryptsetup depend on a graphical boot animation gimmick. But this makes the question even more interesting how such unreflected decisions creep into the community. Is this an attempt to make Ubuntu a bad name? Is there some planning for future plymouth features that make this dependency needed today? Or is this just kind of a strange joke?