(let's drop CC: I believe that all participants to this discussion are subscribed to debian-boot, that receves the bug contributions for D-I packages)
Quoting Thiemo Nagel (thiemo.na...@gmail.com): > > It currently reads: "Erasing data on ${DEVICE}". Maybe something like > > "Erasing data on ${DEVICE}. To continue without ereasing press > > 'Cancel'." How do others feel about this? > > Maybe "Skip" would be more precise than "Cancel"? You probably can't change this as the 'Cancel' button comes from the cdebconf interface. > Also I think "erasing" doesn't quite hit the mark because it leads > users to believe that the step isn't necessary for a new drive or if > they don't care about securely deleting its previous contents. How > about something along the lines of: "Overwriting ${DEVICE} with random > data to prevent meta-information leaks from the encrypted volume. This > step may be skipped at the expense of a slight reduction of the > quality of the encryption." Though I'm never enthusiast when rewriting debconf messages (because it needs some translation updates, which is always a PITA with more than 60 translations), I'm OK with that wording.
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