Changes to consider for debian-live (calamares and gparted)
Dear live team
During this release cycle, I have worked on packaging calamares[0], an
independent system installer framework that can be used from live media.
The intention was to package this for derivatives, and to maintain it
collectively in Debian in order to avoid duplicate work. However,
there's been some interest in whether we should use it on the Debian
live media from both users and people on the #debian-live IRC channel.
Calamares has its pros and cons too. The pros are pretty big, it fast,
friendly and relatively easy to use. On the downside, it doesn't support
software RAID yet, which is probably not an issue for the majority of
people who would use it (laptop, home desktop installations, etc).
Fortunately it's trivial to have both Calamares and debian-installer on
the live media, so if someone needs more sophisticated partitioning,
they can still use d-i.
We are due for a live alpha soon, so what would you think of adding
Calamares to the next alpha so that we can get wide testing and feedback
on it? And then make some more long-term decisions after that?
If I get at least one +1 and no objections, I'll go ahead and add it for
the next alpha.
Additionally, I find that lots of users need/want gparted on the live
media. I think it's time we add it because I've seen people stick/switch
to Ubuntu just because of this, which I find rather silly but I'd rather
have it on the live media if that's what our users want.
-Jonathan
[0] https://calamares.io/
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