$ echo "get debconf/frontend" | debconf-communicate
 0 Dialog

This is not DEBIAN_FRONTEND; I'm looking for the value of the
DEBIAN_FRONTEND environment variable here, which overrides whatever
frontend setting is stored in debconf itself.

The expected behavior is that when you run update-grub (as part of a
package install or otherwise) and there are local changes in your
menu.lst relative to the last auto-generated menu.lst, you get a debconf
prompt asking you how to resolve this conflict.

Of course, once this conflict has been resolved for a given iteration of
the menu.lst, you won't be asked again until the proposed menu.lst
settings change.  So if you had DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive set when
you *last* upgraded, running update-grub again will not give you a new
prompt.  To force the prompt to be shown, you can adjust one of the
settings in your kopt_2_6 line and re-run update-grub.

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update-grub not updating menu.lst
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/202009
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