[Bug 1723434] Re: grub2 splash screen displays excessively long package version number

[Steve Langasek]

This becomes less of an issue when the newly-released grub 2.02 is
included, probably in the 18.04 cycle; but we should still clean this up
in a future-proof way.

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Title:
  grub2 splash screen displays excessively long package version number

Status in grub2 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  grub2 is currently at version 2.02~beta3-4ubuntu6 in artful, and
  2.02~beta2-36ubuntu3.14 in xenial.

  While it's important to be able to know from within the bootloader the
  exact version of grub that is running for bug reporting and
  troubleshooting purposes, this is a very ugly string to display to the
  user in the default path.

  We should patch upstream grub to display a user friendly string in the
  banner, and hide the full package version in some variable that's
  available from the GRUB console for debugging purposes.

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