Bug#748302: Add Xen parameters to /etc/default/grub

[Paul Muster]

On 16.05.2014 15:58, Ian Campbell wrote:

On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 10:33 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 09:35:48AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:

On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 00:09 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:30:04PM +0200, Paul Muster wrote:

Please add placeholders/examples for Xen kernel config to /etc/default/grub

I would rather not change /etc/default/grub except when absolutely
necessary, because doing so causes configuration file prompts for
everyone.

Everyone or just people who have local modifications?

Sadly it winds up being significantly more people than I'd like because
the maintainer script code for handling /etc/default/grub has lots of
terrible stuff in it for historical reasons.  And of course editing
/etc/default/grub to add some kernel arguments is very common, even
among people who don't really know what they're doing thanks to various
web guides

That makes sense, thanks for explaining.

Well, do we really need to care about 'people who don't really know what they're doing'?

Perhaps this suggested change could be queued up to be applied when the
file needs to change for some other reason?

Or is there a possibility to "deliver" different files a) at first package install and b) at updates?

  (the number of bugs I've seen that were due to Unicode quotes
in /etc/default/grub thanks to copying and pasting from web pages would
probably startle you).

Almost nothing about this sort of thing surprises me any more ;-)

Greetings,

Paul

Some days ago I learnt a new (to me) English saw: "If you make something idiot proof, someone will just make a better idiot." ;-)

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