Bug#261023: /sbin/update-grub: Customisable "title" string

[Free Ekanayaka]

Package: grub
Version: 0.93+cvs20031021-8
Severity: wishlist
File: /sbin/update-grub


Currently the string for the "title" option is hardwired in
/sbin/update-grub:

write_kernel_entry()
{
   ...
   echo "title             Debian GNU/Linux, kernel $kernel_version $recovery_desc" >> $buffer

Would it be possible to use a variable in /etc/defaults/grub file to set it?

It might be usefult to introduce further variables too, e.g. for the
splash image.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.25-1-multimedia-686
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal hand