Bug#253069: debian-installer TC1 successful installation on Apple Powerbook G4

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

Quoting Steve Langasek (vorlon@debian.org):

> Although being able to suggest usernames is a nice feature, my wife (who
> rarely has occasion to add users or install systems :) also stumbled at
> this point in the installer during a usability test, expecting this to
> be a prompt about a username rather than a full name.  It may be that
> she's atypically steeped in Unix tradition, and that most newcomers to
> Debian will think in terms of people names rather than usernames, but at
> least some people are confused by the present order.

I've seen Steve's wife confused and I confirm...:-)

This change was motivated by  wishlist bug which, at this time, seemed
rather logical when dealing with nonUnix people.

However, as James reaction shows, people used to older installs will
nearly automatically apply the old scheme (login, then "real" name)
without reading the bloody screens...:-). I specifically remember
Steve just saying Patty "just read the screens"....

Indeed the prompt in the shadow package should here be far more clear
(such as "Real name (first name+family name)" or whatever...). In the
past, we had "Debian User" here which made evident what was
asked....however, there were also wishlist bugs for removing this
default as a lot of dumb user installs then had "Debian User" as gecos
for the first created user.

This is really tricky. IMHO, changing this template would be good. I
wait for us to get a better access to the shadow package so that
changing this template becomes easy (as well as fixing translations).