Comment 9 for bug 12649

Carlos Garnacho wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 18:31 +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
>
>
>>gnome-system-tools is a configuration utility. In Debian, configuration
>>utilities can do anything, no matter how stupid, without it being
>>considered an RC bug. The reasoning is that the administrator chooses
>>to run the program; hence if chaos results then it is the admin's own
>>fault. He should have known better.
>>
>>If a higher standard than this were applied to gnome-system-tools --
>>e.g., if the standard were applied that g-s-t should not mangle system
>>configuration files or dupe the admin into doing so, then g-s-t would
>>not be releasable. (See the many bugs open against g-s-t in the Debian
>>BTS.) If it couldn't be released with sarge then neither could the
>>"gnome" package, which depends on it. You don't want sarge releasing
>>without GNOME, do you?
>>
>>(P.S. Please note that this is my sarcastic way of saying that this bug
>>report is an additional reason for deeming g-s-t not to be of release
>>quality.)
>>
>>
>
>Thomas,
>
>You should contact the correct BTS (yes, upstream! gnome one!
>surprisingly, debian is not the only distro under the sun, nor the only
>one that g-s-t supports, nor has the only and one BTS I must read) with
>a copy of the file that fails or a test-case (that should be clever
>indeed), instead of blaming blindly with your offending and annoying
>sarcasm
>
>but notice that if it hasn't been fixed before, it's because I couldn't
>experiment this, and because I can't magically know the config files
>that the people have
>
> now let's try to be helpful
>
>

As requested. menu.list.correct is the original file. menu.list.gnomed
is the same file after running boot-admin, saving without changing
anything. menu.list.grubbed is menu.lst after update-grub has run on the
boot-admin'd file. Note boot-admin drops the ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC
KERNELS LIST, so update-grub assumes all entries in the file can be
wiped & recreated from /boot.