Even basic help options are missing from the whiptail dialog

[crf]

Basic help for using the whiptail dialog need to be present in the package reconfiguration dialogue that may be presented to the user after updating grub. For instance, that TAB moves from option to option, SPACE toggles options, and ENTER moves on to the next step.

There are no help options for how to work the dialog presented to the user. The typical user isn't going to know how to work a whiptail dialog. They are not even going to know that the dialog is presented by a program called "whiptail", and so are not likely to read its man page.

Pressing ENTER in the dialog may send the User back the beginning, if an option otherwise needed to the selected.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: grub2-common 2.00-15ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.10.0-0.7-generic 3.10.0-rc7
Uname: Linux 3.10.0-0-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.10.2-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jul 13 19:42:06 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-09-02 (314 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Alpha amd64 (20120902)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: grub2
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This isn't particular to grub.

[Andreas Moog (ampelbein)]

The package responsible should be newt and there is a 7 year old bug in debian's BTS, linking that, but I wouldn't hold my breath for a change in behaviour. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=354297