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Bug#842626: marked as done (installation-reports: Should warn when installing 32bit on 64bit-capable machine)

Your message dated Sun, 23 Aug 2020 09:57:23 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#842626
has caused the Debian Bug report #842626,
regarding installation-reports: Should warn when installing 32bit on 64bit-capable machine
to be marked as done.

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Package: installation-reports
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

My coworker installed Debian on an amd64-capable laptop, but happened to
take the 32bit ISO image by mistake, and of course we noticed only after
finishing the installation :)

She was surprised that there was no warning about installing 32bit on
64bit. There could perhaps be for instance a confirm question right
after selecting the language, and implemented in the hw-detect package,
and be taught the same for ppc, mips, etc.

Samuel

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Hello Samuel,

On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 07:05:03AM +0000, Holger Wansing wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am Samstag, 22. August 2020 schrieb Samuel Thibault:
> > Control: reopen 842626
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Debian Bug Tracking System, le sam. 22 août 2020 20:33:55 +0000, a ecrit:
> > > If you know, that the issue you reported (and gets closed here) is still existing
> > > in recent installation images, please file a new report for that!
> > 
> > I don't think we need a new report on this one, but just reopen it,

Partly


> > since it already has all useful information whatever the Debian release?
> 
> My thought was, that 64 bit systems are common these days and
> people will more likely choose the 64 bit images.
> If that is the wrong one, they get the error message about that
> and they will try the 32 bit one.
> 
> Many years ago, it was the apposite:
> people would choose the 32 bit image if unsure, and that could 
> lead to the problem addressed with this report.
> 
> And if such message was not implemented in the past 10 years,
> it will also not be implemented in the next 10 years :-) 
> 
> Therefore I think this bug can be closed.

Done


Our common interest is a better debian-installer.

The BTS has information what needs to improved.

The BTS has information what got no priority.

The silence after https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=842626#10 
strongly indicates  NO priority.


Holger is doing good work by cleaning up the BTS.
He is making visible where d-i can be improved.
He is preventing that (potential) developers get tired
by seeing again and again bug reports no one cares about.


Samuel please respect the work of Holger Wansing and leave this BR closed and
> > > If you know, that the issue you reported (and gets closed here) is still existing
> > > in recent installation images, please file a new report for that!

The win-win-win situation is
* There is a BR that i386 image checks for amd64 host and informs user about it
* Holgers good work is respected
* BTS has only open BR that deserve attention, which keeps developers
  motivated to check BTS for what needs to be done


Groeten
Geert Stappers
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