On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 18:06:18 +0000 Steve McIntyre <st...@einval.com> wrote:
> Source: unetbootin > Severity: serious > Tags: d-i > Justification: wasting massive amounts of developer and user time > > I've already added one wishlist bug for d-i to add code to detect > unetbootin usage and complain about it, but I've not got there > yet. unetbootin used to be a helpful tool for many people to create > USB-bootable installer images, but these days seems responsible for > lots of user problems and difficult-to-resolve bug reports. Using it > for Debian CD images creates USB images that do not work correctly. > It's not even needed any more - we've been making working iso-hybrid > images for years now. > > Unetbootin is wasting massive amounts of developer and user time. :-( > > Please add: > > * An entry in the Debian package description to say "Do not use > unetbootin for Debian CD images, just write them raw using dd" or > similar. > > * A runtime warning (with a similar message) if the user is > attempting to use unetbootin for a Debian CD image. > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 7.8 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > Foreign Architectures: i386 > > Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > >
