Bug#845683: grub2: /etc/default/grub: incorrect code comment

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 12:18:10PM -0800, Ryan Cunningham wrote:
> The file 'debian/default/grub' in the GRUB 2 source code tree, which
> becomes '/etc/default/grub' when GRUB 2 is installed, has an incorrect
> comment line.  Such a line says that the text-mode terminal only works
> in 'grub-pc'; I have tested the functionality with 'grub-efi-amd64' on
> my MacBook and it works perfectly, with an 80x25 character EFI console
> centered on my MacBook screen.

While this is absolutely true, I unfortunately need to defer applying
your patch for an indefinite time (not intended as a euphemism for
"wontfix").  The problem is that the packaging process for
/etc/default/grub was badly designed and doesn't deal with merging user
changes very well, so essentially any packaging change to this file will
result in a confusing prompt on upgrade (and almost everyone has GRUB
installed, so that's a lot of prompts).  We should certainly fix that at
some point, but until then I've been strenuously avoiding changing this
file in any way.

When we do fix it, I'm somewhat more inclined to just remove these
ad-hoc bits of documentation and instead just leave it to the
documentation reference at the top of the file.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]