Bug#1125362: partman-efi: When using a preseed file EFI volumes should be formatted

Source: partman-efi
Version: 110
Severity: wishlist
Tags: d-i
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
User: [email protected]
Usertags: amd64
User: [email protected]
Usertags: amd64

Dear Maintainer,

While using a debian preseed file to automate the installation of our
servers I was surprised to discover that EFI partitions are not
formatted, even if format{} is specified in the partman config. From
examining the source code I see this decision was made in response to 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-efi/+bug/769669.

I think the rationale for not formatting makes sense when interactively
installing debian. However, for automated installs I think the
assumption can be made that the user is aware of the dangers of
formatting a partition.

Would it be possible to respect the partman format directive in the case
of automated installs?

Thanks for maintaining partman, yours kindly Jesse Hathaway

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.3
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.57+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/96 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)