Comment 29 for bug 1443735

Robie,

> We deliberately didn't do this is as will cause a prompt
I suppose another way would be to conditionally append the value via a postinst script, but I further suppose you declined to take this approach because it lacks elegance.

> As far as I understand, the recordfail path should only get followed after a boot failure.
I opened https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1475620 - I agree the issue should get corrected at source, if possible.

> Please feel free to file a separate bug
I'll see first the outcome of 1475620.

thanks for your feedback