Source: unetbootin Severity: serious Tags: d-i Justification: wasting massive amounts of developer and user time
I've already added one wishlist bug for d-i to add code to detect unetbootin usage and complain about it, but I've not got there yet. unetbootin used to be a helpful tool for many people to create USB-bootable installer images, but these days seems responsible for lots of user problems and difficult-to-resolve bug reports. Using it for Debian CD images creates USB images that do not work correctly. It's not even needed any more - we've been making working iso-hybrid images for years now. Unetbootin is wasting massive amounts of developer and user time. :-( Please add: * An entry in the Debian package description to say "Do not use unetbootin for Debian CD images, just write them raw using dd" or similar. * A runtime warning (with a similar message) if the user is attempting to use unetbootin for a Debian CD image. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.8 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
