GRUB menu goes too big over time

[Dr. Karl Schueler]

Binary package hint: grub2

through time & continued updates the menu becomes huge & unmanageable for the average user.
Suggestion ; automatically maintain in the menu and in the archives only the current & last 2 versions of Ubuntu.

Obviously, if you have done various updates the newest is working, & the oldest is Redundant - useful life over.

A security issue developes in that users are confused which item to click.

[Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy. Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.

[Dr. Karl Schueler (smakarl)]

it does permit a user to potentially loose track of where he is at - click
wrong.
That gives the security characteristic.

On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Marc Deslauriers <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> better. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but this appears
> to be a "regular" (non-security) bug. I have unmarked it as a security
> issue since this bug does not show evidence of allowing attackers to
> cross privilege boundaries nor directly cause loss of data/privacy.
> Please feel free to report any other bugs you may find.
>
> ** Visibility changed to: Public
>
> ** This bug is no longer flagged as a security vulnerability
>
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[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Thanks for your report. This is essentially the same as bug 540452, which is fixed in Natty.

[Dr. Karl Schueler (smakarl)]

Great. I use 10.4 because in 10.10 upport for my HP scanner was *gone.*
When is the next LTS ?

None destructive upgrades are available using the update manager.
When will they be a part of CD download?

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:48 AM, Colin Watson <email address hidden>wrote:

> *** This bug is a duplicate of bug 540452 ***
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/540452
>
> Thanks for your report. This is essentially the same as bug 540452,
> which is fixed in Natty.
>
> ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 540452
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[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The next LTS will probably be 12.04. I cannot speak to your HP scanner
problems. You can upgrade non-destructively using the alternate install
CD.

(Please take further general questions somewhere else, though - bug
reports should be just for specific software errors.)