Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")
On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:55:58 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 9:30 AM, Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@wowway.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:06:56 -0400 (EDT), Tom H wrote:
>>>
>>> Don't you think that lilo will be left in the repos but not available
>>> at install time? You could then install lilo post-OS-install or
>>> through pre-seeding.
>>
>> Not without an active upstream maintainer. That's the critical need now.
>
> I meant to say the Lenny repos (although I am curious to see whether
> it will really disappear from the Squeeze repos once Squeeze is
> released).
If they pull it, they will probably pull it *before* squeeze becomes the
current stable release. Once a release becomes the stable release, it's
almost impossible to pull a package from it.
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