That's not the point; the system is also warning you that proceeding
with the install is potentially breaking your setup if there is a pre-
existing partition.

In the past Steve McIntyre changed the code to avoid having this message
show up when dealing with a blank disk; plus further updates fixed
false-positive issues. We're sufficiently up to date with Debian w.r.t
partman-efi already. I think more than changing the text, we need to fix
the logic to make absolutely sure it doesn't trigger on blank disks.

As for non-blank disks, perhaps it would be best to fail to install in
that case -- the system will surely not boot in UEFI mode, and other
bits will fail (such as installing grub-efi).

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Title:
  Warning message when installing in EFI mode to a BIOS disk is horribly
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