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Bug#925105: marked as done (CD-ROM is default repository, not mirror)

Your message dated Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:38:52 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#925105: CD-ROM is default repository, not mirror
has caused the Debian Bug report #925105,
regarding CD-ROM is default repository, not mirror
to be marked as done.

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Package: debian-installer

Version: debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1.iso, from 2019-03-16


After a clean installation this in the content of the sources.list:

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Buster_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20190311-05:00]/ buster contrib main

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Buster_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD Binary-1 20190311-05:00]/ buster contrib main

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main

deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main

deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib

deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib


I guess you can always argue if this is a bug.
But I will claim that by far the waste majority of Debian users want to have the selected mirror in the installation to be the primary repository, not the, in many ways, useless CD-ROM.
Wouldn't it be more fair that the very few that actually want the CD-ROM to be the primary repositor, are the one who has to modify the sources.list? And not the waste majority of the users.
And if they don't, they can just skip selecting a mirror in the installation, and then the CD-ROM should be the repository.

install log attached.

Attachment: Debian_install_logs.7z
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Hi Brian,

Thanks for your comments!

On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 09:35:28PM +0100, Brian Wengel wrote:
>Package: debian-installer
>
>Version: debian-testing-amd64-DVD-1.iso, from 2019-03-16
>
>
>After a clean installation this in the content of the sources.list:
>
># deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Buster_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD
>Binary-1 20190311-05:00]/ buster contrib main
>
>deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Buster_ - Official Snapshot amd64 DVD
>Binary-1 20190311-05:00]/ buster contrib main
>
>deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main
>
>deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main
>
>deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib
>
>deb-src http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates main contrib
>
>
>I guess you can always argue if this is a bug.
>But I will claim that by far the waste majority of Debian users want to have
>the selected mirror in the installation to be the primary repository, not the,
>in many ways, useless CD-ROM.
>Wouldn't it be more fair that the very few that actually want the CD-ROM to be
>the primary repositor, are the one who has to modify the sources.list? And not
>the waste majority of the users.
>And if they don't, they can just skip selecting a mirror in the installation,
>and then the CD-ROM should be the repository.

We already have logic in the installer in this area. If the user is
using a netinst image or a live image, then we will *not* keep that
image as a primary source once the installation is finished. But for
larger images (DVD, BD) we keep it in the sources.list. It's a
difficult choice to make reliably for everybody here...

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