No way of regenerating /etc/default/grub

Bug #1317062 reported by Rüdiger Kupper
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Bug Description

If the user has removed /etc/default/grub or wants to revert to the default version of this file, there is no way of getting it back.
Neither is this file provided by any package, nor is there a (documented) way of generating it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: grub-pc 2.02~beta2-9
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.46-generic 3.13.9
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Wed May 7 14:04:07 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-12 (389 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release amd64 (20121017.5)
SourcePackage: grub2
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-18 (19 days ago)

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Rüdiger Kupper (ruediger.kupper) wrote :
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Phillip Susi (psusi) wrote :

This appears to be an intentional feature of dpkg/apt; once you have decided to remove a conf file, it assumes you wanted it gone when you reinstall. Completely purging grub-pc and then reinstalling will get the file back, but it seems like there should be an easier way of doing this.

affects: grub2 (Ubuntu) → apt (Ubuntu)
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