Re: Debian Graphical Installer: why does it format swap?
This all dates from the days when 1) you might actually need swap to
complete an install and 2) swap was utilized by partition name and
not a UUID. It's reasonable to wonder if the installer still needs to be
so aggressive about swap space. There's a bug (842409) dating from 2016
regarding this topic, which was opened with severity minor and hasn't
gotten any commentary since then. Another (905793) got a few comments
but nothing in more than a year. Perhaps some discussion sent to the
BTS about alternate behaviors would be useful, rather than just rants
that "something" is "broken"?
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