Re: are posix-shell-compliant continuation lines valid/supported, or not, in /etc/default/grub ?

[PGNet Dev]

On 3/19/20 8:17 PM, PGNet Dev wrote:
> On 3/19/20 8:04 PM, Eli Schwartz wrote:
>> On 3/19/20 10:02 PM, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
>>> I hope you do understand that it
>>> is intended for all of the Ubuntu installer & upgrade integrations to keep
>>> valid configs compatible.

For anyone similarly interested, it looks like Ubu 18 *LTS* will NOT be getting 
a fast fix for 'this' Posix support for a bit, if at all, as it remains a ... 
"highly unusual configuration".

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1868138/comments/8

    "So given that 8.13 is affected - which was released a year ago, and it's a 
highly unusual configuration, this is not in need of an urgent hotfix."

::facepalm::



Eli, your admonition to consider a more 'stable' option moves to the front of 
the line.  Migrations to Grub + Arch & OpenSUSE spinning up today.

Thx for the comments folks.