Please consider this change very important. In my personal opinion
is it makes the critical priority totally useless. Not everyone can
type without errors easily and typing a password without seeing it
easily multiplies that.
I assume critical priority will normaly be choosen where you want to
have something fast. Thus having to very slowly and consciously type
the password is the total opposite of what you want.
If having to enter this the second time is so combusom, there is still
the possiblity of preseeding.
The definition quoted before says:
Items that will probably break the system without user intervention.
So not asking has nothing to do with critical, as it does not change
what items are asked. It just cripples down some input method to
something which has been below anything considered sensible for
a long time now.
One could argue that this is a limitation of having something debconf
like, as it does not allow a "input verified password", but needs
workarounds like asking two times and comparing, but that is no
excuse for breaking critical installs.
I just want to add that "people who can not enter a password blindly
at the first try should not use critical" is not very useful, as this
has nothing to do with experience or knowledge, but is simply childish.
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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