Redundant and possibly ambiguous message in partman

[Bruce Miller]

Within debian-installer, partconf controls disk partitioning.

Within the manual partitioner, the page which sets parameters (e.g. filesystem type, mount point, etc) has two exit points with identical function. One is "Go Back"; the other is "Done setting up the partition". Is this duplication of function a benefit or a problem?

I have always found the wording of "Done setting up the partition" awkward to the point of ambiguous. The wording:
Done setting up *_this_* partition
would be better, and better still would be:
Finished setting up this partition

Manual partitioning is scary for many users, and anything we can do to remove ambiguity and uncertainty is worthwhile.

[xtknight (xt-knight)]

I thought "Go Back" made it not commit the changes made?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

It's actually called partman, FYI, not partconf (which is an obsolete partitioner that d-i used to use before Ubuntu existed).