Bug#281568: gnome-system-tools: boot-admin breaks dual boot configuration

[Jo Shields]

Package: gnome-system-tools
Version: 1.0.0-1
Severity: important


The boot-admin program allows users to easily tweak their GRUB
configuration. However, any configuration changes made result in a new
configuration being written. This lacks the automagic kernel references
in a standard update-grub'd menu.list, and as a result, the next time
update-grub is run (by a kernel upgrade, for example), any entries which
are not considered automagic (i.e. all of them) are lost, those that are 
not recreated (i.e. non-/boot-kernels) are lost entirely. This includes, 
notably,
any Windows dual boot facility.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8

Versions of packages gnome-system-tools depends on:
ii  libart-2.0-2              2.3.16-6       Library of functions for 2D 
graphi
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.6.1-5        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbonobo2-0              2.6.2-7        Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii  libbonoboui2-0            2.6.1-1        The Bonobo UI library
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-18   GNU C Library: Shared 
libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4               2.6.4-2        GNOME configuration 
database syste
ii  libglade2-0               1:2.4.0-1      Library to load .glade 
files at ru
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.7-1        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome2-0               2.6.1.2-2      The GNOME 2 library - 
runtime file
ii  libgnomecanvas2-0         2.6.1.1-2      A powerful object-oriented 
display
ii  libgnomeui-0              2.6.1.1cvs-1   The GNOME 2 libraries (User 
Interf
ii  libgnomevfs2-0            2.6.2-2        The GNOME virtual 
file-system libr
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.13-1       The GTK+ graphical user 
interface
ii  libice6                   4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  liborbit2                 1:2.10.2-1.1   libraries for ORBit2 - a 
CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.4.1-4        Layout and rendering of 
internatio
ii  libpopt0                  1.7-5          lib for parsing cmdline 
parameters
ii  libsm6                    4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session 
Management
ii  libxml2                   2.6.11-5       GNOME XML library
ii  perl                      5.8.4-3        Larry Wall's Practical 
Extraction
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System client 
libraries m
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.2-1      compression library - runtime

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