Bug#748302: Add Xen parameters to /etc/default/grub

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 09:35:48AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 00:09 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 11:30:04PM +0200, Paul Muster wrote:
> > > Please add placeholders/examples for Xen kernel config to /etc/default/grub
> > 
> > I would rather not change /etc/default/grub except when absolutely
> > necessary, because doing so causes configuration file prompts for
> > everyone.
> 
> Everyone or just people who have local modifications?

Sadly it winds up being significantly more people than I'd like because
the maintainer script code for handling /etc/default/grub has lots of
terrible stuff in it for historical reasons.  And of course editing
/etc/default/grub to add some kernel arguments is very common, even
among people who don't really know what they're doing thanks to various
web guides (the number of bugs I've seen that were due to Unicode quotes
in /etc/default/grub thanks to copying and pasting from web pages would
probably startle you).

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]