Bug#608263: /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme: new 05_debian_theme doesn't allow no background image

[Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 07:42:37PM +0100, Alexander Kurtz wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 05.01.2011, 19:03 +0100 schrieb Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe:
> > 00_header - which may not be wrong (except the colors :)), but it's not
> > 05_debian_theme's job and may clash with others not expecting it.
> You have to remove exactly one line to disable that feature.

Yeah, that's great with what you did. But - what do you mean with "you"?
Do you expect me (user!) to modify 05_debian_theme? Or do you mean it's
easy for you (maintainer!, yes, I know you aren't but for
05_debian_theme you currently act like one :)) to disable it? I never
doubt the latter :)

> Oh come on! If you have an image file in /boot/grub/, you probably have
> put it there yourself.

Oh come on! You (maintainer!) put one there yourself! :)

> > Probably it's also bad for systems that have other ways of setting up a
> > grub-background which includes copying images to /boot/grub. You now set
> > them up a graphical console and you don't know if you (re-)do it before
> > or after them, i.e. if you probably make it worse.
> Those packages would have to hack grub.cfg manually. I really don't care
> about such broken packages.

Nope, They would plug a script into /etc/grub.d, as you do.


Mario
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