On Monday 06 April 2009, Christian Perrier wrote:
Quoting William Pitcock (nenolod@dereferenced.org):
lilo is due for removal anyway due to being unmaintained upstream and
the widespread availability of alternatives.
I think that last part is debatable.
I do not have time to manage the removal at this point, but it will
be gone by June.
Has the package already been offered for adoption? Preferably with an
overview of its current (upstream) status and main issues. I'd say that
if there's anybody willing to (actively) maintain it, it should not be
removed.
This is a heads up mail for the D-I team.
I'm not sure where the original mail comes from, but IMO this should be
discussed on d-devel, especially since it impacts more than just D-I. I
suspect there are quite a few packages that make some sort of provisions
for lilo.
There are also significant numbers of people still using lilo for, at
least for them, very good reasons.