Re: Uploaded lilo 21-1 (source i386) to master
Steve Greenland <stevegr@debian.org> writes:
> Is this the same lilo 0.21 whose release notes say "This version should
> be considered experimental and used with due precaution"? I question
> whether it should be in slink at all, no matter *who* uploaded it.
I grepped for experimental in the sources and only found one instance,
in the changelog between version 5 and 6.
> Consider that in a very short time (I hope!) we are going to be
> releasing slink, and hordes of people will be doing wholesale upgrades.
> Many of them probably won't even notice that lilo got upgraded until
> their machine won't boot 3 weeks later.
It was uploaded to potato only - new releases generally aren't allowed in
frozen.
> If it fixes important bugs (i.e. those that make it usuable for a class
> of user (machine, whatever) not presently supported, I propose the
> following:
It supports the following new bootdevices:
- added support for Mylex DAC960 PCI RAID controllers (by Leonard Zubkoff)
- added support for third to sixth IDE interface
> Am I overreacting? Maybe, but lilo is a key package for a lot of people,
> and recovering from a lilo failure is non-trivial. (Yeah, I know you
> should have a current boot floppy. And I do. But many don't.)
The package was tested before upload as well. I don't think your suggestions
were overreacting, if the package had been put in slink.
Martin.
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