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Re: Considerations for lilo removal



Le Monday 16 June 2008 12:03:09 Michael Banck, vous avez écrit :
> > On some of my boxes all filesystems are on LVMs and the Debian installer
> > used lilo to boot the systems. It would be nice if these systems can
> > still be used with future Debian versions. Please remove lilo only if
> > there's a full replacement available.
>
> Lilo is already removed from testing and will not be in lenny until
> somebody steps up and cares for it.

Really that is not serious.

The RC bug is a side effect as explained before, and just for that the package 
is removed while it is still part of the installer and very important to 
*many* users, without even communicating about it.

I'm really disapointed of such a irresponsive behaviour.


Romain


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