Bug#919029: grub-pc: meaningless message "RUB boot loader was previously installed..."

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 02:00:36PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2019-01-12 10:36:02 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > The rest of the bug is figuring out why the dialog box was
> > malformed. Perhaps it's because the long ID of /dev/dm-0 caused it
> > to overflow, and debconf somehow decided to display an oversized
> > dialog rather than truncating or wrapping or whatever? That seems to
> > me to be a debconf bug rather than something that should be worked
> > around in grub-pc, though.
> 
> I'm wondering. The paragraphs that came before the text with the
> long ID were wrapped. Was this wrapping done by grub-pc or debconf?
> If the former, I assume that it is grub-pc's responsibility to do
> the wrapping.

The wrapping is done by debconf.  I think this must be a debconf bug,
but I'll need to do some experimentation.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]