[Bug 1283493] Re: Name "EFI boot partition" is non-standard

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

The strings come from debian / partman-efi (see below). Most of our
translations come from Debian, and it would reduce amount of
translations we have if we diverge from debian on this one. All
references are attached below. Can you please open a bug report in
debian against partman-efi package with proposed consistent naming for
all of these?

Git repository at https://alioth.debian.org/anonscm/git/d-i/partman-efi.git
Source of all templates: http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=d-i/partman-efi.git;a=blob;f=debian/partman-efi.templates;h=e48c99779aaedc39adba9a885e06f8e25924a618;hb=HEAD


Template: partman-target/arch_help/ia64
Type: text
# :sl5:
_Description: In order to start your new system, the firmware on your Itanium system loads the boot loader from its private EFI partition on the hard disk.  The boot loader then loads the operating system from that same partition.  An EFI partition has a FAT16 file system formatted on it and the bootable flag set. Most installations place the EFI partition on the first primary partition of the same hard disk that holds the root file system.

Template: partman-efi/text/efi
Type: text
# :sl5:
_Description: EFI boot partition

Template: partman-efi/no_efi
Type: boolean
# :sl5:
_Description: Go back to the menu and resume partitioning?
 No EFI partition was found.

Template: partman/method_long/efi
Type: text
# :sl5:
_Description: EFI boot partition

Template: partman/method_short/efi
Type: text
# :sl5:
# short variant of 'EFI boot partition'
# Up to 10 character positions
_Description: EFIboot

#Template: partman/filesystem_long/efi
#Type: text
#_Description: EFI boot partition (FAT16)

Template: partman/filesystem_short/efi
Type: text
# :sl5:
_Description: EFI-fat16

Template: partman-efi/too_small_efi
Type: error
# :sl5:
_Description: EFI partition too small
 EFI boot partitions on this architecture cannot be created with a size less
 than 35 MB. Please make the EFI boot partition larger.



** Also affects: partman-efi (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: partman-efi (Debian)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

** Changed in: partman-efi (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Name "EFI boot partition" is non-standard

Status in “partman-efi” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in “partman-efi” package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  Ubiquity refers to the EFI System Partition (ESP) as an "EFI boot
  partition." The latter name is non-standard; AFAIK, it's used *only*
  in ubiquity. It's therefore potentially confusing to users, who may
  wonder how (or even if) the "EFI boot partition" relates to the ESP.

  Unfortunately, this problem is pretty widespread. The EFI standards
  document all use the term "EFI System Partition" or "UEFI System
  Partition." Although the acronym "ESP" is in common use, it doesn't
  appear in the EFI spec. GParted and parted identify an ESP as having
  its "boot flag" set, which is a phenomenal fail on a user interface
  level -- but that's not the point of this bug report. My own GPT fdisk
  (gdisk) uses the term "EFI System" (with "partition" being implicit).
  Users often refer to the "EFI partition" -- see for instance
  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI.

  As somebody who communicates with users in forums, I find that there's
  a lot of confusion about the ESP because of the number of unique names
  that are being used to refer to the same thing. Hence this bug report:
  If Ubiquity simply changes "EFI boot partition" to "EFI System
  Partition," one source of confusion and frustration will be
  eliminated.

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