Bug#777166: Please consider not hard coding the name "Debian" into error messages
On Fri, Feb 06, 2015 at 06:53:30AM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
>Quoting Phillip Susi (psusi@ubuntu.com):
>>
>> Recently a new message was added to d-i:
>>
>> This machine's firmware has started the installer in UEFI mode but
>> it looks like there may be existing operating systems already
>> installed using "BIOS compatibility mode". If you
>> continue to install Debian in UEFI mode, it might be difficult to
>> reboot the machine into any BIOS-mode operating systems later.
>>
>> Please consider replacing "Debian" with `lsb_release -si` or similar
>> so that people installing other distros based on debian don't get a
>> message about a different operating system than the one they are
>> installing.
>
>Doh. That one escaped my attention when this message was added.
>
>We usually avoid hardcoding "Debian" and this is probably one of the
>very rare cases where we failed. The message was added in a bit of a
>hurry recently and that failed to be catched by the review....:-(
ACK. Sorry, my fault guys. :-(
>Sadly, I'd prefer us not to change this now.....as it will require
>Yet Another Round of translation updates....which takes weeks to
>achieve.
>
>I'd prefer something like "If you continue to install in UEFI
>mode, it might be difficult to reboot the machine into any BIOS-mode
>operating systems later" and avoid "the distro" or anything like
>that. The output of "lsb_release -si" is likely to not work.
Works for me, yeah.
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