Re: Last call for pv-grub-menu.
On 12/14/2013 12:47 PM, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> pv-grub-menu is a package that maintains a configuration file in
> /boot/grub/menu.lst, that is read by the PV-GRUB boot system. It can not be
> part of the grub-legacy package, which is in maintainance mode, and GRUB2
> maintainers have not expressed an interest for hosting the scripts (which are
> not relevant to GRUB2). pv-grub-menu is a specialised package that is only
> useful for system images booted by PV-GRUB, in particular on the Amazon
> platform.
>
> However, it has been three monthes that the package is blocked in the NEW queue
> because the FTP team would prefer its contents to be part of an existing
> package.
>
> You can find more about pv-grub-menu at the following link.
>
> http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/pv-grub-menu.git;a=summary
I do really think this package is important, and I want to see it in
Debian as well. Not having it in Debian blocked me from having
openstack-debian-images to support non-HVM Xen systems.
I do also think that it should be separated from GRUB itself, since
that's a completely separated thing. Asking for it to be part of grub2,
would be as if you'd ask mawk to be part of gawk. It makes absolutely no
sense to me, these are completely different implementation.
Could the FTP masters reconsider their view?
Cheers,
Thomas
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