On 21/08/2025 at 14:17, Holger Wansing wrote:
Am 21. August 2025 01:19:26 MESZ schrieb Pascal Hambourg
<[email protected]>:
This is the point: if there is no future change (add new supported units,
change the default unit or add a new package or dialog which uses size input),
then I am not sure it is worth it.
We cannot know what happens or not...
No, but we can try to guess...
New supported unit or format: Sectors ? Hexadecimal ?
New default unit: GiB ?
New support for logical volumes: partman-zfs was removed and may be back
some day ? tmpfs or zram ? I am not sure if volatile storage fits in
partman.
All this seems unlikely to me, maybe except switching default unit to
GiB (decimal units seem to confuse some users, causing partitions to be
smaller than expected).
But in this case, I propose to do only the needed template changes, to get that
all consistent, and keep the rest as is.
Yes, it sounds like the least effort on short term.
Additionally, we could add comments to relevant strings like
"When doing changes, please pay attention to stay consistent with other similar strings in
<package/filename/variablename>."
Good idea, but most functional changes would originate from partman-base
which does not contain such template.
