Bug#690538: Isn't the submenu concept itself clashing with GRUB_DEFAULT settings != 0?

[Colin Watson]

On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 02:25:14AM +0100, Maurizio Avogadro wrote:
> I didn't read this bug report before trying to understand the issue; I
> used to keep GRUB_DEFAULT=saved and the introduction of the submenu
> catched me unprepared. Going to give my 2 cents by telling my thoughts.
> 
> I started to think that the creation of a submenu should be avoided in
> any case when GRUB_DEFAULT is not set to 0: at next boot, if the default
> entry is in the submenu, grub will show the submenu as selected without
> showing what's going to boot, which doesn't make any sense IMO.

I'm concerned that this will make it harder for people to look at the
menu structure and work out what they need to set GRUB_DEFAULT to,
because the act of setting GRUB_DEFAULT will change the behaviour.  This
seems unnecessarily confusing and undesirable.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]