Re: Request: removal of package lilo from testing

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Joachim Wiedorn <joodebian@joonet.de> schrieb:
>> Your approach above will be good for users of unstable and testing, but
>> how does this help users of stable, when they upgrade from buster to
>> bullseye after the release of the latter? Just by writing this in the
>> release notes? Is that the best we can do?
>
> That's right, it doesn't help users of stable and oldstable, if they make
> an upgrade.=20
>
> But then the only solution is making a transitional package "lilo" which
> have dependency to grub2, which will install grub2 and remove the binaries
> of lilo. This can entail many risks. Because of many different system
> structures it could be, that at the end there is no functioning booting on
> this system ...=20

I doubt that's really needed? Anyone who willingly installed lilo over the
default in the last decade (or longer) made a very specific expert choice,
simply mentioning that in the release notes should be totally fine.

Cheers,
        Moritz