Bug#1111577: installation-reports: Missing and wrong information about default units (GB since trixie)

[Holger Wansing <hwansing@mailbox.org>]

Control: clone -1 -2
Control: reassign -1 partman-partitioning
Control: retitle -1 partman-partitioning: Missing information about default units (GB since trixie)
Control: reassign -2 partman-lvm
Control: retitle -2 partman-lvm: Wrong information about default units (GB since trixie)


Hi Vincent,

you are right. That should be fixed.
I'm reassigning to the relevant packages.

Thanks!



Vincent Danjean <vdanjean@debian.org> wrote (Tue, 19 Aug 2025 17:58:28 +0200):
> Package: installation-reports
> Severity: minor
> 
>   Hi,
> 
>   The current trixie installer switches to GB as default unit instead of MB.
> And indeed, both for plain (gpt) partitions and logical volume (LVM), I checked that the default unit is now GB.
> 
>   I think that the default unit should be added in the text when choosing plain (gpt) partitions.
> And, in any way, the text when choosing LV size must be changed as it still refer to megabytes instead of gigabytes (but gigabytes are really used).
> 
>   Here are two screenshot of the installer text:
> - one when creating plain (gpt) partition with no information about default unit (GB used)
> - one when creating logical volume (LVM) which state that the defaut unit is Megabyte (GB in fact)


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