Re: Bug#927867: RM: elilo-installer -- ROM; elilo is no longer in the archive
Hello!
On 4/24/19 12:46 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> elilo-installer can be removed from the archive as the bootloader it
> installs, elilo, has been removed from the archive almost five
> years ago [1].
>
> There is no concern of breakage as all architectures which used elilo
> in the past can now use GRUB without any problems, including ia64 which
> we just switched over to use the grub-efi-ia64 package. elilo is also
> dead upstream.
>
> Please remove elilo-installer.
As a heads-up: ia64 has now been completely switched over to GRUB (both
for the installed system and debian-installer) and ELILO is no longer
needed. Hence, elilo-installer can be purged from the archive.
Thanks,
Adrian
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