Bug#588011: "maintainers version" of /etc/default/grub should not differ from machine to machine

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.98+20100702-1
File: /etc/default/grub
Severity: wishlist

Can you fellows please stop making _my_ settings that part of the
"maintainers version" of /etc/default/grub?

One wishes to have them neatly contained in the bottom of that file,
only to find that they end up also in the "maintainers version" of that
file.

The Debian grub packages are the only ones with the _gall_ to absorb
settings from the local environment, and attempt to make them part of
the "maintainers version" of an /etc/default/ file. There ought to be
a Policy against that.

You could have a
GRUB_HELP_USER_MAINTAIN_ETC_DEFAULT_GRUB=yes
variable, but I still think you are going overboard, and the help just
becomes a maintenance tug of war.

You see we users have to sort out what stuff is really new in there from
you guys at the top, and what has been gleaned from my local settings
that were formerly comfortably in the bottom of /etc/default/grub but
end up getting integrated, or shall we say, blended into the top of
/etc/default/grub.

Please also don't assume that users only have one machine, thus they
won't notice that the "maintainers version" differs from machine to
machine.