[Bug 564853] Re: Spurious conffile prompts for /etc/default/grub

[Scott Moser]

As a comment (from the header in the reproduce script)

# The problem is that the user will be prompted with a dialog:
#    What do you want to do about modified configuration file grub?
# even when there is no upstream change to the config file if they
# have made *both*:
#  a. changes to grub-pc.postinst fields:
#     GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX, GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT, GRUB_TIMEOUT,
#     GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT
#  b. any other changes

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Title:
  Spurious conffile prompts for /etc/default/grub

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in grub2 package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: grub-pc

  This concerns grub-pc 1.98-1ubuntu5 in Lucid beta1 (upgrading from
  1.98-1ubuntu4).

  I have a locally modified /etc/default/grub file. When I upgraded to
  this version of grub-pc, I got the "A new version of configuration
  file /etc/default/grub is available, but the version installed
  currently has been locally modified. What do you want to do about
  modified configuration file grub?" question.

  The problem is, when I look at the diff, it just shows the differences
  between my file, and the way it was originally. In other words, the
  upgraded package does not include any updates to this file; its
  "pristine" copy of /etc/default/grub is the same as the previous
  version's. So I shouldn't even be getting a conffile prompt in the
  first place---as far as the administrator is concerned, nothing has
  changed.

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