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Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")



Ferenc Wagner put forth on 5/24/2010 4:36 AM:

> I chatted about this with the grub upstream a couple of days ago.
> According to Vladimir, most of those bugs are already fixed, but there's
> nobody around to do a new upload.  Both grub maintainers (Felix Zielke
> and Robert Millan) unexpectedly disappeared some time ago.

So it would appear boot loaders in general have a lack of interested/committed
developers?  Both LILO and GRUB.

<sarcasm> So instead of just LILO, why didn't the Debian team just throw both
bootloaders out the window and start over with committed devs? </sarcasm>

-- 
Stan


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