Philipp Kern <pk...@debian.org> (2017-01-29): > Please find attached a patch that's the minimum necessary to preseed > away the disk erase choice. While you could argue that it could be a > full-blown prompt, it is still possible to cancel the erase during > interactive installations as instructed by the wipe process by > hitting [Cancel]. As the wiping occurs directly after selecting the > encrypted LVM receipe I think that should be fine for now. > > Optimally this would also be made conditional on the fact if the > device is rotational or not, to avoid the expensive wiping step on > SSDs. Note that Ubuntu already defaults to skip the wipe in this > case, although without a way to preseed otherwise. > > The patch does not introduce a translatable string, so I'd be > hopeful that we could still merge this for stretch. I tested the > possible paths through this in qemu and the patch only triggers if > the option is explicitly set to false.
If my understanding is correct/matches yours (using Description instead of _Description means no need for a translation), looks good to me for stretch. KiBi.
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