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grub2 package

  1. Bug #1635181
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 1635181

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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote : Re: [Bug 1635181] Re: Curtin sneaks config into /etc/default/grub.d/

On 20/10/16 17:30, Ryan Harper wrote:
> 3) to avoid upgrade issues, curtin did not modify /etc/default/grub
> directly

Does this avoid upgrade issues? Or does it make them inevitable?
Essentially what you're saying is "we don't want the user to be asked a
question during an upgrade". That's fine. But if there is stuff in
/etc/default/grub.d/ then whatever we change during upgrade in
/etc/default/grub is operating under the *delusion* that it is in
control. Therefor, all we're doing is making it harder for people to
*know* what the situation is, *especially* during an upgrade.

Or have I misunderstood what's going on?

Debian config file handling has this as a base problem, I accept that's
not a problem we created, but we need to grapple with it properly, not
kick the can elsewhere.