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Re: New partman-basicfilesystems debconf templates

On 07/27/2013 02:23 AM, Christian PERRIER wrote:

Hello Milan,

I noticed that you added new templates to partman-basicfilesystems for
the following:

   * Warn if bootable partition is not ext2 on Pegasos machines. Closes: #717511

I'll turn these templates to translatable (they are not, yet) and mark
them for sublevel 4 or 5 (belong to "less common" architectures).

However, before doing that, I'd like to use the same wording than
other similar templates (so that translations can be re-used).

Particularly, the following:

Template: partman-basicfilesystems/boot_not_first_partition
Type: boolean
Description: Go back to the menu and correct this problem?
  Your boot partition is not located on the first partition of your
  hard disk. This is needed by your machine in order to boot.  Please go
  back and use your first partition as a boot partition.
  .
  If you do not go back to the partitioning menu and correct this error,
  the partition will be used as is. This means that you may not be able
  to boot from your hard disk.

We already have such a template, but it says "on the first PRIMARY
partition". Would it be wrong to add this "primary" word to the
templates you added?
The partition table on this platform has no concept of primary and secondary class of partitions. Therefore, the word "primary" is not technically correct if you contrast it with the same word as used in DOS partition table concept. But the word itself does not change the message to the user that the partition should be first.
FYI I've found the same message in templates of partman-ext2r0 and partman-ext3 packages, where I actually took the text from. 


The best,

Milan
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