On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 02:46:46AM +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> (2017-01-10): > > Package: preseed > > Severity: wishlist > > Tags: patch > > > > The attached patch adds s= as a command-line alias for url=https:// > > > > url=example.org will assume "http://example.org";, but specifying an > > https:// URL > > requires typing out url=https://example.org . Add an alias s= , mapping > > to the template preseed/https_url, which assumes https:// instead; this > > shortens the kernel command-line parameter to s=example.org . > > Just as a comment while going through my debian-boot/ folder: This seems > too short/not descriptive enough to me.
Do you mean the name "s"? "short" was the primary intent here, since this serves as an alias; making it longer would defeat the purpose. I intended 's' to stand for "secure" (and "seed"). Do you have an alternate suggestion that you consider more evocative of its purpose, without defeating that purpose?
