grub: GetMenuOpt does not preserve blank entries

[Otavio Salvador]

Rune Froysa <rune.froysa at broadpark.no> writes:

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> Package: grub
> Version: 0.97-11ubuntu14
> Severity: normal
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> I use "defoptions=" in menu.lst.  GetMenuOpt does not preserve this.
> First, the -z will bail due to the empty string.  If I have
> "defoptions= ", it will work as expected during the first run, except
> that the echo does not preserve the space, causing the next
> consecutive run to use the default "quiet splash" options.

Please, try to reproduce it using Sid GRUB version.

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