also sprach Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> [2004.06.19.0208 +0200]: > How about we futz with this sort of thing near the beginning of > a release cycle, not near the end? Yeah, but that would actually be productive. We wouldn't want that. I was on a rampage last night. I agree that it should not be a showstopper, but it would be nice to keep it in the back of our heads. > Changing the bootloader installers in d-i now to accept symlinks > either in / or in /boot (i.e. to be strictly more tolerant) would > make some sense; but it should be at the discretion of the port > maintainers, must be well-tested with both rootskel defaults, and > we should not consider this a release blocker in any way. Uhm, the installers don't have to be tolerant, since they only deal with what rootskel does. Some bootloaders like grub would have to become tolerant. Anyway, I'll bring up the issue again when Sarge is out. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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