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

[Ian Campbell]

On Fri, 2014-05-16 at 10:33 +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> 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

That makes sense, thanks for explaining.

Perhaps this suggested change could be queued up to be applied when the
file needs to change for some other reason?

>  (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).

Almost nothing about this sort of thing surprises me any more ;-)

Ian