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Bug#693774: ITP: grub-finnix -- Build a Finnix bootloader stanza on GRUB 2 systems



On Nov 20, Ryan Finnie <ryan@finnie.org> wrote:

> > I think that we can assume the "you should read README.Debian for more 
> > information" part for all packages...
> True, but that was more to guide the user, given the fact that the
> package does absolutely nothing without user configuration.  Perhaps in
This applies to many other packages as well.

> postinst I can read in /etc/default/grub-finnix, check if FINNIX_ISO is
> set, and if not, mention that it must be configured from
> /etc/default/grub-finnix.
Please don't! This way you will annoy everybody on every new install.
It would be much better if you could e.g. automatically set FINNIX_ISO 
in postinst to the most recent file matching /boot/finnix-*.iso.

> The default file itself currently contains
> some basic instructions and a mention of README.Debian for more detailed
> information.  Suggestions?
Great, I think that this is enough to point users to the documentation.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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