Re: Debian Graphical Installer: why does it format swap?

[Michael Stone]

This all dates from the days when 1) you might actually need swap to 
complete an install and 2) swap was utilized by partition name and 
not a UUID. It's reasonable to wonder if the installer still needs to be 
so aggressive about swap space. There's a bug (842409) dating from 2016 
regarding this topic, which was opened with severity minor and hasn't 
gotten any commentary since then. Another (905793) got a few comments 
but nothing in more than a year. Perhaps some discussion sent to the 
BTS about alternate behaviors would be useful, rather than just rants 
that "something" is "broken"?