Some troubles with grub with buster point release 10.8

Steffen Grunewald steffen.grunewald at aei.mpg.de
Mon Feb 8 12:11:45 CET 2021


On Mon, 2021-02-08 at 11:58:25 +0100, Carsten Aulbert wrote:
> 
> 
> On 08.02.21 11:43, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> > Doesn't Colin suggest to use a _space_ separated list?
> > (Apparently commas are harmless in this context?)
> 
> yeah, but the output on manually changed machines had `, ` as a separator
> and debconf-devel says:
> 
> "
> select
>     A choice between one of a number of values. The choices must be
> specified in a field named 'Choices'. Separate the possible values with
> commas and spaces, like this:
> 
> Choices: yes, no, maybe
> 
> multiselect
>     Like the select data type, except the user can choose any number of
> items from the choices list (or choose none of them).
> "

Ouch. It seems Colin had a bad day then.

- S


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