Bug#812574: grub-pc: wants to overwrite admin configuration on each upgrade

[Thorsten Glaser]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:

> Here we generate /etc/default/grub based on the values stored by
> debconf.

I think that that is the problem. You should not generate a
completely new file if the file is user-extensible or contains
values that aren’t also passed through debconf.

You should use something like ed/sed to replace the value
instead, to change only the line in question.

bye,
//mirabilos
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