Re: Remove of lilo-installer
Hi Thorsten!
On 4/2/20 10:30 AM, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> John Paul Adrian Glaubitz dixit:
>
>> No idea what the stance on i386 is. But I think Thorsten is a LILO user.
>
> No, I haven’t been using LILO for a long time either.
Okay, bad memory on my side then :).
> I _did_ use it about a decade ago, when I got back to Debian
> after using only BSD for a while, but even before that, I
> used loadlin more, and discovered grub during the BSD-only
> time (considering it could do PXE).
OK.
> Why the removal? Does it not work any more for some reason?
The LILO package itself isn't being removed.
> Or is this just about the d-i integration?
Yeah, it's just about removing src:lilo-installer. I assume everyone keen
enough these days to use LILO can install it manually anyways.
I have also enabled GRUB on ia64, powerpc, ppc64 and sparc64 as well,
so we made good progress unifying bootloaders.
Adrian
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