Bug#587886: future of maintaining of the bootloader LILO

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Ian Jackson writes ("Bug#587886: future of maintaining of the bootloader LILO"):
> I've caught up on all of this now.  I'm not sure I quite understand
> the position of the current lilo maintainers.  In
>     http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2010/05/msg00769.html 
> William writes:
> 
>   it has pretty much been determined that kernel sizes have crossed the
>   line past where lilo can reliably determine the payload size.
> 
> William, to what are you referring ?  Can you provide a bug number ?
> William and Matt: Can you confirm that you still intend to remove lilo
> from squeeze ?

I've had private email exchanges with Matt (the other existing lilo
maintainer) and Joachim.

Matt and Joachim tell me that are keen to keep lilo in Debian and to
maintain it.  However due to disagreements with his co-maintainer Matt
has been having difficulty getting sponsorship for uploads.

William, are you be happy for Joachim to join the maintainer list for
lilo ?  What is your current view about the future of lilo ?  In
particular, is it appropriate for sponsors to sponsor uploads of new
versions from Matt and Joachim ?

Ian.