Quoting Phillip Susi (ps...@ubuntu.com): > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Package: partman-efi > Version: 59 > > Recently a new message was added to d-i: > > This machine's firmware has started the installer in UEFI mode but > it looks like there may be existing operating systems already > installed using "BIOS compatibility mode". If you > continue to install Debian in UEFI mode, it might be difficult to > reboot the machine into any BIOS-mode operating systems later. > > Please consider replacing "Debian" with `lsb_release -si` or similar > so that people installing other distros based on debian don't get a > message about a different operating system than the one they are > installing.
Doh. That one escaped my attention when this message was added. We usually avoid hardcoding "Debian" and this is probably one of the very rare cases where we failed. The message was added in a bit of a hurry recently and that failed to be catched by the review....:-( Sadly, I'd prefer us not to change this now.....as it will require Yet Another Round of translation updates....which takes weeks to achieve. I'd prefer something like "If you continue to install in UEFI mode, it might be difficult to reboot the machine into any BIOS-mode operating systems later" and avoid "the distro" or anything like that. The output of "lsb_release -si" is likely to not work. But even just dropping "Debian" does not guarantee we can easily fix translations as it is likely that, for some languages, dropping the distro name wouldn't be enough.
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