Comment 5 for bug 239674

I agree that's not a good rationale for a wontfix here.

FWIW, the long-term solution expected here is that we will convert systems from grub1 to grub2 on upgrade to lucid, at which point all the ucf handling goes away because we have a sensible config file format; which means that unfortunately the bug in grub1 (which I agree is a bug, and I regret not noticing when this was being developed) isn't likely to receive further attention before the grub package becomes obsolete entirely.