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Bug#739824: marked as done (partman-efi: The term "EFI boot partition" is non-standard and adds to community confusion)

Your message dated Mon, 08 Sep 2014 05:18:37 +0000
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and subject line Bug#739824: fixed in partman-efi 45
has caused the Debian Bug report #739824,
regarding partman-efi: The term "EFI boot partition" is non-standard and adds to community confusion
to be marked as done.

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Package: partman-efi
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

The partman-efi package refers to the EFI System Partition (ESP) as an "EFI
boot partition." The latter name is non-standard; AFAIK, it's used *only* in
partman-efi and tools derived from it, such as Ubuntu's ubiquity. It's
therefore potentially confusing to users, who may wonder how (or even if) the
"EFI boot partition" relates to the ESP.

Unfortunately, this problem is pretty widespread. The EFI standards documents
all use the term "EFI System Partition" or "UEFI System Partition." Although
the acronym "ESP" is in common use, it doesn't appear in the EFI spec. GParted
and parted identify an ESP as having its "boot flag" set, which is a phenomenal
fail on a user interface level -- but that's not the point of this bug report.
My own GPT fdisk (gdisk) uses the term "EFI System" (with "partition" being
implicit). Users often refer to the "EFI partition" -- see for instance
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI.

As somebody who communicates with users in forums, I find that there's a lot of
confusion about the ESP because of the number of unique names that are being
used to refer to the same thing. Hence this bug report: If Ubiquity simply
changes "EFI boot partition" to "EFI System Partition," one source of confusion
and frustration will be eliminated.

Note that I've also filed a bug report (#1283493) against Ubuntu's ubiquity on
this issue.



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Source: partman-efi
Source-Version: 45

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
partman-efi, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 739824@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> (supplier of updated partman-efi package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2014 06:52:18 +0200
Source: partman-efi
Binary: partman-efi
Architecture: source i386
Version: 45
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>
Description:
 partman-efi - Add to partman support for EFI System Partitions (udeb)
Closes: 739824
Changes:
 partman-efi (45) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Colin Watson ]
   * Change various strings from "EFI boot partition" to the more standard
     "EFI System Partition", and change the short form from "EFIboot" to
     "ESP" (closes: #739824, LP: #1283493).
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