Bug#587886: future of maintaining of the bootloader LILO

[Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com>]

On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:55:50 -0400 (EDT), Joachim Wiedorn wrote:
> 
> in the last weeks nothing going on with the package Lilo. Now there is a
> new RC bug and Squeeze is already frozen. So I have decided to orphan this
> package and give other people the chance to overtake the maintaining of
> lilo to bring it in a good shape before Squeeze will be stable:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=592200

That is premature.  Please don't do that.  RC bugs can still be fixed
after a freeze.  If the RC bug still exists at the time of release,
the package will be removed from Squeeze.  But an RC bug at the time
of freeze is not a fatal problem.
> 
> But now I understand it was premature to orphan Lilo. I have thought the
> decision of TC is set by one member. But now it seems to me that the TC
> must decide together as team and this can take a longer time.
> 
> So I will offer to revert my act of orphaning and wait until the TC have
> decided.

Yes, please do.  I would hate to see all your hard work go to waste.
I am willing to help, but I don't think I'm quite ready to be a DM yet,
especially for a package which requires knowledge of x86 assembly language.

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