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

[Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina@gulfsat.mg>]

> William Pitcock <nenolod@dereferenced.org> :
>This bug *can* be fixed, but not without a significant rewrite of the
>way that lilo's stage2 loader code works.  Given that there is no
>active upstream and that the Debian lilo package carries many patches
>for bug fixes that are alleviated by standardizing on grub2, this
>seems like the best option for Debian.

Agreed: dead (and buggy) softwares must be out of the distribution.
Whatever happens. If LILO regains upstream coders, its return to the
distribution is quite easy.

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