Package: debconf Version: 1.5.73 Severity: wishlist While working on adding support for installing grub to multiple ESPs in Ubuntu[1], I noticed that while debconf's multiselect type stores an ordered list, the selection screen does not provide the user the option to chose a custom order.
Now, in the use case of installing to multiple ESPs, this would be incredibly useful, as it allows you to specify the order of the ESPs that will be set in the bootorder (so that you can declare the order it falls back to different ESPs should some be broken). I'm sure there are other examples. Note that we don't really need a new debconf type, as the storage already is ordered, but like a flag to the frontend that gives the user the option to re-order entries would be enough (and not break frontends). [1] https://code.launchpad.net/~juliank/grub/+git/ubuntu/+merge/381462 -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers focal APT policy: (991, 'focal'), (500, 'focal') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-18-generic (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_WARN, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages debconf depends on: ii perl-base 5.30.0-9build1 Versions of packages debconf recommends: ii apt-utils 2.0.1+0~202003270844~ubuntu20.04.1 ii debconf-i18n 1.5.73 Versions of packages debconf suggests: pn debconf-doc <none> pn debconf-kde-helper <none> ii debconf-utils 1.5.73 ii dialog 1.3-20190808-1 ii libgtk3-perl 0.037-1 pn libnet-ldap-perl <none> pn libterm-readline-gnu-perl <none> ii perl 5.30.0-9build1 ii whiptail 0.52.21-4ubuntu2 -- debconf information excluded -- debian developer - deb.li/jak | jak-linux.org - free software dev ubuntu core developer i speak de, en
