Bug#925105: closed by Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com> (Re: Bug#925105: CD-ROM is default repository, not mirror)

I would say It all depends if you select a mirror in the installation process.
If you DO, I would claim must will prefer and expect it to be used as that repository..

For those who don't select a mirror,of course the repository should be the CD-ROM.

By the way....I believe the waste majority use ISO files -> USB flash, not CD-ROM/DVD.
All in all, the current setup is for the few in favor of the majority, and that's a wrong priority in my view (I don't have any facts and statistics to back up my assertions, so I might be wrong).

I had the same battle with the OPNsense community about the old mindset of CD/DVD (even floppy images).....very very few use CD/DVD today, today you use USB-Flash and net installs.

I'm not saying CD/DVD shouldn't be supported, just don't have a mindset about this is what most people use. It's not.
This goes for the website, dokumentation and how solutions are designed. Having CD-ROM as the main repository is a good example.

Best regards

Brian W, Denmark

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#925105: CD-ROM is default repository, not mirror

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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 16:38:52 +0000
Subject: Re: Bug#925105: CD-ROM is default repository, not mirror
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
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>
>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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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.